Cluster · 1955 – 1980
Pop & the Counter-Reactions
When culture started talking back to high modernism.
Essays in this cluster
Pop Art
High art ceases to despise the supermarket.
1956 – 1972
10 min
Op Art
Painting that makes the eye dance against its will.
1964 – 1972
6 min
Minimalism (Art & Design)
Less, but more rigorously.
1960 – 1980
8 min
Psychedelia
Visual culture under the chemistry of the late 1960s.
1965 – 1973
7 min
Brutalism (Architectural)
Concrete, honestly. The structure is the surface.
1950s – 1980s
8 min