American Art in the 1960s

American Art in the 1960s (1972)

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.

Director: Michael Blackwood

Casts

	John Cage as Self
	Helen Frankenthaler as Self
	Jasper Johns as Self
	Roy Lichtenstein as Self
	Robert Rauschenberg as Self
	Andy Warhol as Self

Crew