Tag Archives: Counterculture

The Counterculture Hippie Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

Posted on January 27, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A new identity was born at the start of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. This youth movement criticized consumerism, promoted peace, and yearned for individualism. The 1960s and ‘70s revolutionized pop culture and encouraged social reform. This 20-year … Continue reading →

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Bruce Conner

Posted on January 18, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 – July 7, 2008) was an American artist who worked with assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography. … Conner first attracted widespread attention with his moody, nylon-shrouded assemblages, complex amalgams of found objects … Continue reading →

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Neal Cassady

Posted on December 31, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lifetime, … Continue reading →

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The Lasting Whole Earth Catalog

Posted on October 14, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“When the Whole Earth Catalog arrived in the Fall of 01968, it came bearing a simple, epochal label: ‘Access to Tools.’ As its editor and Long Now Co-founder Stewart Brand wrote in the introduction to that first edition, the goal … Continue reading →

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Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action – Nadja Millner-Larsen

Posted on September 23, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Black Mask protesting on Wall Street, New York, 1960s “There are many paths through the radical arts of the 1960s. Nadja Millner-Larsen’s Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action takes one back alley and turns it into a … Continue reading →

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MoMA Collects: Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions

Posted on June 12, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Slant Board. 1961 “Before moving to New York in 1959, choreographer Simone Forti spent four heady, formative years in San Francisco. There, she trained with the postmodern dance pioneer Anna Halprin, who rejected the stylistic constraints of ballet and modern … Continue reading →

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Bern Porter (1911–2004)

Posted on April 26, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Wisdom of the Questioning Eye: Five books from the 1960s, by found poet Bern Porter – Mark Melnicove. “What to call Bern Porter? Found poet? Visual poet? Mail artist? Book artist? Pop artist? Concrete poet? He was each of these, … Continue reading →

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“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” – Richard Brautigan (1967)

Posted on April 3, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace’ is a poem by Richard Brautigan first published in his 1967 collection of the same name, his fifth book of poetry. It presents an enthusiastic description of a technological utopia in which … Continue reading →

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“The Work Is Never Done:” Judson Dance Theater Transforms MoMA

Posted on January 2, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A Concert of Dance Nos. 14, 15, 16, by Robert Morris. New York: Judson Dance Theater, 1964. “In 1968, Village Voice critic Jill Johnston proclaimed that between 1962 and 1964 a ‘revolution’ had occurred at Judson Memorial Church. With its … Continue reading →

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Turtle Island – Gary Snyder (1974)

Posted on November 21, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Turtle Island is a book of poems and essays written by Gary Snyder and published by New Directions in 1974. Within it, Snyder expresses his vision for humans to live in harmony with the earth and all its creatures. The … Continue reading →

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How the Beat Generation Created the Uniform for Disaffected Youth

Posted on September 4, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“William Burroughs once said that On the Road ‘sold a trillion Levi’s.’ The iconic denim brand is just one of the fashion companies to benefit from the disaffected, worn-out look popularized by the Beat Generation. The group of writers—including Burroughs, … Continue reading →

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Stewart Brand Saw the Future

Posted on June 23, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“You may have heard the just-so story about environmentalism as we know it. On Christmas Eve 1968, an astronaut aboard NASA’s Apollo 8 spacecraft took a photograph of the faraway surface of a green-and-blue, cloud-marbled planet known to its English-speaking … Continue reading →

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Yves Klein (1928 – 1962)

Posted on June 4, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Yves Klein (28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic … Continue reading →

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Diaries, 1970–73 – Duncan Hannah

Posted on June 3, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

September 1970. Eisenhower High School. I can’t get into the teen spirit of the Hopkins High pep rally. Purple Power! Youth Fever! Sieg Heil! Makes me sick. “I put out a comic book with some other freaks that is sold … Continue reading →

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Greenwich Village Theater in the 1960s

Posted on December 24, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… In the 1950s, the West Village and, later, the newly designated, edgier East Village (rebranded from the northern part of the Lower East Side around 1964) became the cradle of New York’s Beat generation, with its new, raw, and … Continue reading →

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Oz

Posted on December 17, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Oz was an independently published, alternative/underground magazine associated with the international counterculture of the 1960s. While it was first published in Sydney in 1963, a parallel version of Oz was published in London from 1967. The Australian magazine was published … Continue reading →

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Sylvère Lotringer (1938 – 2021)

Posted on November 19, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Sylvère Lotringer (15 October 1938 – 8 November 2021) was a French born literary critic and cultural theorist. Initially based in New York City, he later lived in Los Angeles and Baja California, Mexico. He is best known for synthesizing … Continue reading →

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Making It: Pick up a spot welder and join the revolution.

Posted on November 4, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Enthusiasts of the maker movement foresee a third industrial revolution. January 5, 2014: “In January of 1903, the small Boston magazine Handicraft ran an essay by the Harvard professor Denman W. Ross, who argued that the American Arts and Crafts … Continue reading →

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Hip Capitalism Fails

Posted on September 7, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

March 14, 1968: Selling the underground press on Haight and Clayton. “By 1971 the original 1967 ambivalence among one element of hippie culture with the urban setting manifested itself in what I call the Long March to Tennessee, led by … Continue reading →

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Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019)

Posted on August 15, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Eye Body # 24 from Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera 1963 “Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019) was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender. … Continue reading →

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Yarrowstalks

Posted on May 28, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Yarrowstalks was an underground newspaper (and later a magazine), primarily based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that published 12 issues from 1967 to 1975. It is notable for being the first publication to publish the comix of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. Unlike … Continue reading →

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The Poetry Project’s Half-Century of Dissent

Posted on May 27, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“February 10, 1971, on a Wednesday night in the East Village, a full moon glowed in the wintry sky over St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. Inside, a group of New York’s most cutting-edge scene-makers gathered at the Poetry Project to hear … Continue reading →

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What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye (1971)

Posted on May 23, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“What’s Going On is the eleventh studio album by American soul singer, songwriter, and producer Marvin Gaye. It was released on May 21, 1971, by the Motown Records subsidiary label Tamla. Recorded between 1970 and 1971 in sessions at Hitsville … Continue reading →

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Forever Changes – Love (1967)

Posted on April 5, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Forever Changes is the third studio album by the American rock band Love, released by Elektra Records in November 1967. It was the final album recorded by the original band lineup; after its completion, Bryan Maclean left the group acrimoniously … Continue reading →

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Coffee, Confusion and Jim Morrison: The Forgotten History of Hip Coffee Houses and Beatnik Poets in the Nation’s Capital

Posted on March 9, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Cafe Rienzi, opened by painter David Grossblatt, was one of the first coffee shops in New York. Located on MacDougal Street, 1957. “The Beat Generation emerged in the 1950s as a bohemian-fueled movement of visionary literary heroes, passionate poets and … Continue reading →

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The Rag

Posted on February 19, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Rag was an underground newspaper published in Austin, Texas from 1966–1977. The weekly paper covered political and cultural topics that the conventional press ignored, such as the growing antiwar movement, the sexual revolution, gay liberation, and the drug culture. … Continue reading →

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Access to Success – Whole Earth Catalog

Posted on February 13, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Bookstore managers didn’t know quite what to make of the oversized 64-page volume that showed up in their stores in the fall of 1968. It was called the ‘Whole Earth Catalog‘ and subtitled ‘Access to Tools.’ For $5, buyers got … Continue reading →

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Mary Quant – V&A Dundee

Posted on November 24, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The exhibition Mary Quant currently showing at V&A Dundee is filled with revolutionising fashion, feminist dogma and, ultimately, playful artistry. As the first international retrospective focusing upon the career and significance of Dame Mary Quant (born 1930), the exhibition offers … Continue reading →

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Wanna-Beats: In 1959, Café Bizarre Gave Straights an Entree Into Beatnik Culture

Posted on November 6, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A poet gives a reading on stage at The Bizarre coffehouse on West 3rd St., Greenwich Village, New York City, 1961. “America hit peak hippie in 1967, thanks to the avalanche of media hype that accompanied the Summer of Love. … Continue reading →

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Pushing Buttons: In Our Divided America, Political Pinbacks Give Anyone a Voice

Posted on October 29, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Top: A group of Americana pinbacks from Aisthorpe’s collection. Above: Several of Aisthorpe’s antiwar buttons, circa 1967-1971. “In this modern age of political polarization, we Americans increasingly surround ourselves with friends, neighbors, and news sources that reinforce our worldviews rather … Continue reading →

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Angry Arts Week

Posted on September 12, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Rudolf Baranik, Artists’ Poster Committee of Art Workers Coalition “… The most significant antiwar effort from the arts community during 1967 was Angry Arts Week, which took place in New York City between January 26 and February 5. Angry Arts … Continue reading →

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The Incredible String Band

Posted on September 8, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a British psychedelic folk band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron in Edinburgh in 1966. The band built a considerable following, especially in the British counterculture, notably with … Continue reading →

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Conceptual art

Posted on August 22, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called installations, may be constructed by … Continue reading →

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Experimental theatre

Posted on June 11, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Marat/Sade in Keith Fowler‘s inaugural production for the Virginia Museum Theater, October 1969 – design by Sandro La Ferla “Experimental theatre (also known as avant-garde theatre) began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his … Continue reading →

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Isaac Asimov

Posted on May 23, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Isaac Asimov (/ˈæzɪmɒv/; c.  January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer who wrote … Continue reading →

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Artifacts of the Analog Era – Rex Weiner

Posted on March 12, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“As I pack the FedEx box addressed to the Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New York—a nonprofit study center for ‘objects created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, zines, t-shirts and buttons, audio recordings…’—I am … Continue reading →

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The Situationist Times, 1962–67

Posted on February 18, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Jacqueline de Jong was born in 1939, in the Dutch town of Hengelo, to liberal, contemporary art-collecting Jewish industrialists. In 1942, she and her mother fled to her mother’s native Switzerland, where they stayed out the war in Zurich; one … Continue reading →

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What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been (February 26, 1976)

Posted on December 18, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The San Francisco scene started at the Red Dog Saloon, as much as you can say it started at any one place. Most of the elements were there: rock & roll, a sort of light show, the first psychedelic dance … Continue reading →

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Back-to-the-land movement

Posted on October 4, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Maine “A back-to-the-land movement is any of various agrarian movements across different historical periods. The common thread is a call for people to take up smallholding and to grow food from the land with an emphasis on a greater degree … Continue reading →

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Underground newspapers: The social media networks of the 1960s and 1970s

Posted on September 15, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Published in Detroit from 1965 to 1967, Free Poems Among Friends was one of a large number of literary undergrounds. “The social movements of the 1960s and 1970s transformed American politics, social life, and culture. From civil rights groups, to … Continue reading →

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