Description |
287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
Contents |
Introduction: Did the Sixties really happen? -- 'Tomorrow starts Now': Utopian visual culture in Britain / David Alan Mellor -- Tomorrow you'll all be artists: The art scene in France, 1960-73 / Laurence Bertrand Dorleac -- Life in the image / Laurent Gervereau -- Daughters of Albion: Greer, sex and the Sixties / Sarah Wilson -- Beatlemania -- Perverse Pop: From Joe Meek to David Bowie / Andy Medhurst -- King's Road to Courreges: Fashion and fashion photography / Philippe Garner -- Architecture and design / Gerard Monnier -- The cult of creativity: Young British architects / Ian Jeffrey -- The dawn of a revolution: Comic strip and newspaper cartoons / Thierry Groensteen and Jean-Pierre Mercier -- The New Wave, or the power of the ephemeral / Antoine de Baecque -- Dedicated follower of fashion: British cinema in the Sixties / Philip Dodd and Vicky Allan -- The television revolution in Britain / Stuart Laing -- French television / Marie-Francoise Levy -- A new domestic landscape: British interior design, 1960-73 / Barry Curtis -- Psychedelic living -- The Sixties on both sides of the Channel / Michel Wincock -- Pop music and protest in France / Marianne Amar -- 'Something in the air': Youth culture and subcultural style in Britain / Bill Osgerby -- Photography in France: Forms of photographic expression / Therese Blondet-Bisch -- Moving times -- New words -- Dead clocks: Sigma, London counter-culture / Andrew Wilson -- Protest movements of the '1968 years' in France / Genevieve Dreyfus-Armand and Michelle Zancarini-Fournel -- A chronology: The Sixties in Britain and France, 1962-73 / David Alan Mellor and Laurence Bertrand Dorleac |
Summary |
Britain and France each produced a powerful but different response to youthful aspirations during the 1960s. Now, authors from both sides of the Channel focus on the two countries and the exchanges between them to reveal a new vision of the decade |
Notes |
Translation of: Les Sixties, années utopies, published: Paris : Somogy Éditions d'Art, 1996; translation by Judith Hayward |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Translated from the French |
Subject |
Arts, British -- 20th century.
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Arts, French -- 20th century.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Nineteen sixties.
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Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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SUBJECT |
France -- Civilization -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051194
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France -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051193
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France -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051506
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United Kingdom -- Civilization -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056627
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United Kingdom -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056626
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056954
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Author |
Gervereau, Laurent.
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Mellor, David.
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LC no. |
2004274420 |
ISBN |
0856674672 |
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