1960's
1960
Fast Food conquered America
1960
Fast Food conquered America
1960
Make love not war
Hippie movement, a counteculture example lived in the 60s. They desired peace, wanted to change society by withdrawing from it.
1960
Visual Poetry
Artist exploration of connection between images and words.
1961
Berlin Wall
Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany.
1960
Body Art
The use of the body as a mediumof expression, the artists themselves were the canvas, the character and the living stories.
1961
Sandenista National Liberation Front
FSLN was formed by opposition parties and student groups.
1960
Afghanistan's modernization
King Mohammad Zahir Shah mplemented democratic reforms such as free elections and equal political rights for all Afghan citizens.
1961
Fluxus movement
Founded by George Maciunas with Dick Higgins, characterized by the complete openness of the artistic lenguage to all materials.
1961
Nouveau Relaism
Published in Milan.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba.
1961
Kinetic and Programmed Art
Founded in Zarageb, it united artists who were carrying out parallel researches, they the specific attention paid to modern technologies and perceptive phenomena of optical derivation.
1963
JFK Assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder, Vice-President Johnson became President.
1963
"I have a dream"
A public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United State.
1964
Nobel Pace Prize to Marthin L. King
Youngest person ever awarded this price due to how he proved you can win a battle without a war.
1965
Vietnam War
US troops invaded Vitnam.
1965
Black Vote Right
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state.
1965
Land Art
It sought contact with the natural, uncontaminated places characterising America.
1965
Conceptual Art
Refers to the research that American and British artists developed, based on studies, of the philosophy of language and structuralism.
1965
Hyper Realism
Their works were based on images of reality as seenn through the photographic eye, therefore they were highly detailed and executed.
1967
Arte Povera
Founded by a group of Italian artists promoted by the critic Germano Celant, seeking to create a new relationship with the world of things.
1968
Beginning of Space race
US launched Apollo 8 – first manned orbit of the Moon.
1968
Prague Spring
A period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia as a Communist state after World War II.
1968
Brezhnev doctrine
A Soviet foreign policy, to justify invasion of Czechoslovakia
1968
North Vietnam atacks again
They sent an offense to 100 cities around South Vietnam.
1968
Moscow Protocol
Document that promises to protect socialism in Czechoslovakia
1968
Paris 68
Strikes all over Paris students protested for the refonr of the French University system. Revolutionaries againt Conservatives.
1968
New Year's Vietnam atack
South Vietnam was attacked during the festivity of new year.
1968
Tlatenolco massacre
Students and civilians were killed by military and police on October 2,1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco.
1968
Mexican CU taken by the government
After days fighting the students from CU won over them.
1969
Watergate affair
President of the US, Nixon sent people into the democratic party to eavesdrop his opponents.
1969
First main in the Moon
US Apollo 11 landed on the Moon and Neil Armstrong became the first man on the Moon.