Sixties Surreal

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A reevaluation of American art of the 1960s that foregrounds the role of surrealism during a period of social and political upheaval Challenging what we think we know about art of the 1960s, this volume moves beyond the established movements of pop art, minimalism, and conceptualism... Read More

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"A fascinating look at how American artists of the 1960s created a unique brand of surrealism to reconnect art to an increasingly untethered reality and create new horizons for subject matter and form that continue to reverberate in American art today"-- Provided by publisher.

Description

A reevaluation of American art of the 1960s that foregrounds the role of surrealism during a period of social and political upheaval

Challenging what we think we know about art of the 1960s, this volume moves beyond the established movements of pop art, minimalism, and conceptualism to shine a light on how American artists created a unique type of surrealism, making works suffused with eroticism, dread, wonder, violence, and liberation.

A series of essays reveals how this new surrealism enabled artists to reconnect art to an increasingly untethered reality following the period of rapid postwar transformation and to imagine new worlds and models for art rooted in political and social change.

Presenting a new framework to understand the work of artists such as Lee Bontecou, Franklin Williams, Nancy Grossman, Mel Casas, Yayoi Kusama, Jim Nutt, John Outterbridge, Ralph Arnold, H. C. Westermann, Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Christina Ramberg, and Robert Arneson, this study features an expansive chronology that highlights how a broad group of artists across the United States connected to each other through exhibitions, galleries, and collectives.

Offering a fresh perspective on how artists in the 1960s harnessed psychoanalysis, wordplay, and assemblage, among other strategies, to create new horizons for subject matter and form that continue to reverberate in American art today.

Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art

Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(September 24, 2025–January 29, 2026)

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300284508

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 September 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 200 b-w illus- + 200 color illus.

Contributors:

Edited by Dan Nadel
Contributions by Jo Applin
Contributions by Sampada Aranke
Contributions by Lucy Bradnock
Contributions by David J. Getsy
Edited by Elisabeth Sussman
Edited by Scott Rothkopf
Edited by Laura Phipps
Contributions by Ruben Cordova

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 267.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 403

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Dan Nadel is curator-at-large at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Laura Phipps is associate curator, Scott Rothkopf is Alice Pratt Brown Director, and Elisabeth Sussman is curator, all at the Whitney Museum of American Art.