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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: Icons on the American landscape in the 1960s: Mapping the culture of car and road Abstract: Icons on the American Landscape in the 1960s: Mapping the Culture of Car and Road asserts that images of automotive culture play critical roles in ground-breaking artistic developments in American art during the 1960s. In the 1960s, artists' depictions of automobiles and roads foster radical shifts among notions of "high" and "low" art forms that characterize art of the decade. Artists transform America's automotive landscape into art that highlights the complex role of the grand icons of American experience in contemporary life.Images of automotive culture from the period reveal conflicts concerning among others, notions of freedom, abundance, individual identity, and automation in American society. |
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