More than any other decade, the Sixties captures our collective
cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately
imagine the sound of Martin Luther King, Jr. declaring, "I Have A
Dream," or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels while
staring down the National Guard, the revolutionary Sixties resonate
around the world: China's communist government inaugurated a new
cultural era, African nations won independence from colonial rule,
and students across Europe took to the streets calling for an end
to capitalism, imperialism, and the brutality of the Vietnam War.
In this highly original work, James Meyer turns to art criticism,
theory, memoir, and fiction to examine the fascination with the
long Sixties and contemporary expressions of these cultural
memories across the globe. Meyer draws on a diverse range of
cultural objects that reimagine this revolutionary era stretching
from the 1950s to the 1970s, including reenactments of civil
rights, antiwar, and feminist marches, Cai Guo-Qiang's
reconstructions of an iconic Cultural Revolution-era sculpture, and
the television series Mad Men, to name only a few. Many of these
works were created by artists and writers born during the long
Sixties, who are driven to understand a monumental era that they
missed. These cases show us that the past becomes significant only
in relation to our present, and our remembered history, whether
dark or glowingly nostalgic, never perfectly replicates time
passed. This, Meyer argues, is precisely what makes our
contemporary attachment to the past so important: it provides us
with a critical opportunity to examine our own relationship to
history, memory, and nostalgia.
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