Film

American Art in the 1960s

1972 · 57m · Documentary

During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An explosion of artistic energy produced Pop Art, Minimalism, color-field painting, and hard-edged abstraction. Sculptors and painters on both coasts explored new methods and new subject matter. American Art in the Sixties examines the key figures of that decade including Rauschenberg and Johns, two crucial transitional figures between Abstract Expressionism and the sensibilities of the new decade. The art of that time mirrors the optimism and the affluence, and the technology and the vulgarity of those boom years.

John Cage

Self

Helen Frankenthaler

Self

Jasper Johns

Self

Roy Lichtenstein

Self

Robert Rauschenberg

Self

Andy Warhol

Self

• Michael BlackwoodDirector
• Barbara RoseWriter

Release date

January 1, 1972

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

57m

Genres

Documentary