1968

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The year 1968, it is argued, represents a significant change in political, artistic and social feeling around the world, a collision between the old order and the new. Radical forms of art emerged in Britain, Europe, North America and Australia. Minimal art contrasted with pop art, whilst performance art, earth art, "anti-art" and other conceptual movements rejected the traditional view of art as a commercial enterprise and demonstrated the new trend to prize public values over private ones. This book is an examination of the causes and consequences of 1960's new art, focusing on the year 1968. Illustrated with examples of work by such artists as Diane Arbus, Ian Burn, Larry Clarke, Janet Dawson, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Jasper Johns, Richard Larter, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Arnulf Rainer, Bridget Riley, Martin Sharp, Joe Tilson and Andy Warhol, it explores the main themes and issues of the period, relating them to the developments of art in the following decades.