Hippie Modernism

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Tent. Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 24-10-2015, 28-02-2016 ; Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Art Museum, 19-06-2016, 09-10-2016 ; Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 08-02-2017, 21-05-2017. - Groepstentoonstelling onderzoekt aan de hand van kunst, architectuur en design ontstaan en ontwikkeling van de tegencultuur in de periode 1964-1974. - Hippie Modernism accompanies an exhibition of the same title examining the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalogue surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal and professional norms while proposing new kinds of technological, ecological and political utopia. It includes the counter design proposals of Victor Papanek and the anti-design polemics of Global Tools; the radical architectural visions of Archigram, Superstudio, Haus Rucker Co and ONYX; the media-based installations of Ken Isaacs, Joan Hills and Mark Boyle and Helio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; the experimental films of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner and John Whitney; posters and prints by Emory Douglas, Corita Kent and Victor Moscoso; documentation of performances staged by the Diggers and the Cockettes; publications such as Oz Magazine and The Whole Earth Catalog and books by Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller; and much, much more. While the turbulent social history of the 1960s is well known, its cultural production remains comparatively under-examined. In this substantial volume, scholars explore a range of practices such as radical architectural and anti-design movements emerging in Europe and North America; the print revolution in the experimental graphic design of books, posters and magazines; and new forms of cultural practice that merged street theater and radical politics. This book explores the hybrid conjunction of the countercultural ethos and the modernist desire to fuse art and life