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1960's

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.

Artist exploration of connection between images and words.

1960

Visual Poetry

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.

King Mohammad Zahir Shah mplemented democratic reforms such as free elections and equal political rights for all Afghan citizens.

1960

Afghanistan's modernization

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.

A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba.

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

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.

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder, Vice-President Johnson became President.

1963

JFK Assassination

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.

Youngest person ever awarded this price due to how he proved you can win a battle without a war.

1964

Nobel Pace Prize to Marthin L. King

1965

Vietnam War

US troops invaded Vitnam.

Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state.

1965

Black Vote Right

1965

Land Art

It sought contact with the natural, uncontaminated places characterising America.

Refers to the research that American and British artists developed, based on studies, of the philosophy of language and structuralism.

1965

Conceptual Art

1965

Hyper Realism

Their works were based on images of reality as seenn through the photographic eye, therefore they were highly detailed and executed.

Founded by a group of Italian artists promoted by the critic Germano Celant, seeking to create a new relationship with the world of things.

1967

Arte Povera

1968

Beginning of Space race

US launched Apollo 8 – first manned orbit of the Moon.

A period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia as a Communist state after World War II.

1968

Prague Spring

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.

Document that promises to protect socialism in Czechoslovakia

1968

Moscow Protocol

1968

Paris 68

Strikes all over Paris students protested for the refonr of the French University system. Revolutionaries againt Conservatives.

South Vietnam was attacked during the festivity of new year.

1968

New Year's Vietnam atack

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.

After days fighting the students from CU won over them.

1968

Mexican CU taken by the government 

1969

Watergate affair

President of the US, Nixon sent people into the democratic party to eavesdrop his opponents.

US Apollo 11 landed on the Moon and Neil Armstrong became the first man on the Moon.

1969

First main in the Moon
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