Literature
Literature reflected what was happening in America on the social and political arena in the sixties. Authors wrote about gender, race, homosexuality, feminism and war, and they criticized society. A book which described some of the turmoil of race relations as they affected people in America, Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about a small southern town and social distinctions between races. There were other books about race and gender, women of color that helped create new insights on feminism as it developed in America.
Other Popular books that set the time.
Art- Pop Art
Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's. It coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture, personified by Elvis and the Beatles. Pop Art was brash, young and fun and hostile to the artistic establishment. It included different styles of painting and sculpture from various countries, but what they all had in common was an interest in mass-media, mass-production and mass-culture.
Photography
Iconic photography was the main photography in the 1960's because so many things went on and the photographs captured the most unforgettable and emotive events that happened.
The Most Iconic Photos of the 1960's
Works Cited
- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ndo
- http://artsconnected.org/collection/118487/art-in-the-1960s?print=true
- https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=1960s%20pop%20art&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=NkVJUb-JKar02gXLjoDgAw&biw=1366&bih=624&sei=OUVJUbaAFIfC2wXj4IHQBA#imgrc=IV_0PmRQ595X7M%3A%3BVUazNSjpK_7kZM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.austinchronicle.com%252Fbinary%252F8721%252Farts_feature-23676.jpeg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.austinchronicle.com%252Farts%252F2004-04-02%252F205025%252F%3B300%3B304
- http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204363/Fascinating-photographs-inside-1960s-America--exactly-like-glittering-world-Mad-Men.html
- http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm