The year was 1963 and from Birmingham to Washington; D.C.; from Vietnam to the Kremlin to the Berlin Wall; the world was in the throes of political upheaval and historic change. But that same year; in New Yorks Greenwich Village; another kind of history and a different sort of politics were being made. This was a political history that had nothing to do with states or governments or armies--and had everything to do with art. And this is the story that Sally Banes tells; a year in the life of American culture; a year that would change American life and culture forever. It was in 1963; as Baness book shows us; that the Sixties really began. A leading writer on cultural history; Banes draws a vibrant portrait of the artists and performers who gave the 1963 Village its exhilarating force; the avant-garde whose interweaving of public and private life; work and play; art and ordinary experience; began a wholesale reworking of the social and cultural fabric of America. Among these young artists were many who went on to become acknowledged masters in their fields; including Andy Warhol; John Cage; Yoko Ono; Yvonne Rainer; Lanford Wilson; Sam Shepard; Brian de Palma; Harvey Keitel; Kate Millet; and Claes Oldenburg. In live performance--Off-Off Broadway theater; Happenings; Fluxus; and dance--as well as in Pop Art and underground film; we see this generation of artists laying the groundwork for the explosion of the counterculture in the late 1960s and the emergence of postmodernism in the 1970s. Exploring themes of community; freedom; equality; the body; and the absolute; Banes shows us how the Sixties artists; though shaped by a culture of hope and optimism; helped to galvanize a culture of criticism and change. As 1963 came to define the Sixties; so this vivid account of the year will redefine a crucial generation in recent American history.
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