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Books and Ideas of 1967
A survey of the books and arguments readers were discussing in 1967, from Black Power and Marshall McLuhan to Latin American fiction and French theory.
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Books, Ideas and Art
Books, thinkers and artists who shaped the debates of 1967.
Andy Warhol and the Factory in 1967
How Andy Warhol's Factory studio, his experimental films and his sponsorship of the Velvet Underground fit together in 1967, a pivotal year for his work.
Black Power by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton
The 1967 book Black Power by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, and how the slogan grew out of the 1966 Meredith March in Mississippi.
Chaos or Community: Martin Luther King Final Book
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967 book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? and its turn toward economic justice, guaranteed income and sober realism.
One Hundred Years of Solitude and Magical Realism
How Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude appeared in Buenos Aires in 1967 and became a landmark of Latin American magical realism.
The 1967 Art World: A Year of Innovation
Minimalism in 1967: Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt, where their work was shown, and Michael Fried's essay Art and Objecthood.
The 1967 Art: A Year of Experimentation
How conceptual and process art took shape in 1967: Sol LeWitt's Paragraphs, Arte Povera in Italy and the first land art, and how they differed from Minimalism.
The Armies of the Night: Norman Mailer on the Pentagon March (1968)
Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night, published in 1968, tells the October 1967 March on the Pentagon through his own role as a participant.
The Medium Is the Massage and Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan's 1967 book The Medium Is the Massage, its experimental design with Quentin Fiore, and the idea that media shape society.
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Guy Debord's 1967 book The Society of the Spectacle, its critique of consumer image culture, and its place among the ideas that circulated before May 1968.
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