1952-1971

In the 1950s a lot was going on.

-The first artificial telescope was launched > Sputnik. The first pictures, look at the stars from a floating object

-Rock and roll became popular 

-Jackson Pollock

-Dada- the idea of surrealism, the use of uncommercial objects telling a story, making a stance. 

-Pop art

-the hydrogen bomb was first tested in 1952

the 1950s were a flourishing time about pop culture, the new idea of COLOR television

convertibles, children's toys, refrigerators 

in the 1960s, the civil right movement gave African American rights. They could vote by 1965

HIPPIES !

in the 1960s hippies emerged.

Free loving, peace valuing, drug taking, lovers. 

color, skirts, long hair, fancy sunglasses, bellbottom jeans, music, sex, love, and freedom.

Neil Armstrong lands on the moon in 1969

Between 1950-1970 the Vietnam war was happening

in 1971 the clockwork orange was released.

This movie was really influential, the idea of freedom. The characters were free from government, social norms, their emotions were acted on no matter what. Nihilists. They didn't care about anything or anyone. Whatever they wanted to do, they did. 

I think this is a pivotal important point for beginning of the 1970s, 

America has evolved from, girls wearing long skirts and dresses to cover their skin, to becoming more risque- It seems like this movie took every social normality and threw it out the window. What mom and dad preach to children was abolished. For once the audience saw what it was like to follow your stream of conscious, to go deep into their unconscious and act on feeling. Straight feeling, and not about how it was effecting others. 

Rebellion.

much like the speak easies in the 20s. 

Except, this was public rebellion. 

the military would go to war, see a bunch of terrifying images and come back to the US with PTSD

and do drugs.

Drugs were so popular

mind altering substances.

art was psychedelic .

Drugs can take away the pain and harsh realities of life, and put you in a place of paradise. A world of not caring, a dream that feels real. Colors are brighter, feelings are more intense, it's the idea of relaxation, intensity. soul searching.

A clockwork orange really emanated this idea.

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