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Corporate Sell-Outs and Other Modernist Myths
Jun 01 2022
By Alex J. Taylor, author of Forms of Persuasion: Art and Corporate Image in the 1960sIn a short commentary in the Los Angeles Times published earlier in the year, art critic Christopher Knight lambasted the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for presenting what he claimed to be “a show of art conceiv
What The Great Escape Tells Us About America in the 1960s
Mar 25 2022
By Dana Polan, author of Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and CultureI had long wanted to revisit the 1963 classic The Great Escape, ever since seeing it as a kid at a drive-in re-release in the mid-60s. Like many young American boys of the time, I imagine, I went to the fil