more prolegomena: early 1963

[Ian Livingston]

> 1953 Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1961), Supreme Commander of
> the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II, is
> elected president of the U.S. and will serve until 1961.

Just a little fine tuning, Alice: Ike was elected in '52 and '56, died
in '69, as per Wikipedia citation:

34th President of the United States
In office
January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961
Vice President 	Richard Nixon
Preceded by 	Harry S. Truman
Succeeded by 	John F. Kennedy
Born 	October 14, 1890(1890-10-14)
Denison, Texas
Died 	March 28, 1969 (aged 78)
Washington, D.C.
Nationality 	American
Political party 	Republican
Spouse(s) 	Mamie Doud Eisenhower
Religion 	Presbyterian

Although I did not really experience his presidency, as I was born
during his tenure, what I know of the man from the history books, et
al, suggests to me he may have been our most recent Republican
politician. Since his time, especially under the leadership of Tricky
Dick and Ronnie McReagan, the "Republican" party has apparently
evolved into the cover banner for the American Fascist movement.


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:51 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 1952 Composer John Cage (1912–1992) creates his first performance
> works in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham
> (born 1919) at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Cage's ideas
> about chance as a fundamental element of the artmaking process, along
> with Duchamp's notion of the found object or readymade, will strongly
> influence artists coming to maturity in the 1950s, including Robert
> Rauschenberg (born 1925) and Jasper Johns (born 1930), who will make
> his first flag painting in 1954.
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> 1953 Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1961), Supreme Commander of
> the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II, is
> elected president of the U.S. and will serve until 1961.
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> 1954 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that racial segregation is in
> violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This begins
> a long struggle for Civil Rights for African Americans and other
> minority groups in the U.S. that continues into the 1960s. The
> movement's landmark events of the 1950s include the bus boycott
> against racial segregation in Selma, Alabama (1955), and the school
> desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas (1957).
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> 1954 R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) exhibits a cardboard model of
> his geodesic dome, a proposed solution to the need for quickly and
> easily produced dwellings, at the Milan Triennale, which includes
> architectural and urban projects.
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> 1955 Simon Rodia (1879–1965) completes work on the Watts Towers in Los
> Angeles, begun in 1921. Without formal architectural or engineering
> training, Rodia built two towers more than 100 feet tall with steel
> rods and hoops, and covered with a mosaic of found materials.
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> 1956 Elvis Presley (1935–1977) releases his first number-one hit, the
> song "Heartbreak Hotel." Many other hit songs will follow and Presley
> will become known as the "King of Rock and Roll."
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> 1957 Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) publishes On the Road, which makes him a
> cult hero of the Beat movement.
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> 1957 Tatyana Grosman (1904–1982) establishes Universal Limited Art
> Editions (ULAE), a printmaking workshop, in West Islip, New York. ULAE
> sets the standards for a postwar printmaking renaissance in the United
> States.
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> 1957 Leonard Bernstein's (1918–1990) musical West Side Story premieres
> on Broadway. It is a popular retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story
> in the guise of contemporary New York gang culture.
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> 1958 The U.S. establishes the National Aeronautics and Space
> Administration (NASA), which leads to astronaut Alan Shepard's
> (1923–1998) first manned American space flight in 1961.
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> 1958 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
> (1867–1959), opens in New York. Wright had begun working on the
> commission for a building to house the Guggenheim's collection of
> modernist art in 1943. The museum represents a sculpturally and
> spatially rich use of concrete.
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> 1959 The first public "happening" is produced by Allan Kaprow (born
> 1927) at the Reuben Gallery in New York. Jasper Johns and Robert
> Rauschenberg are among the performers. Influenced by Jackson Pollock's
> process of action painting, the teachings of John Cage on chance and
> indeterminacy in art, and ultimately Dadaism, Kaprow defines a
> happening as a choreographed event that facilitates spontaneous
> interactions between objects—which include performers—and visitors.
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> 1960 John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) is elected president of the United
> States, the first Catholic to hold the office. He serves until his
> assassination in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald (1939–1963) in
> 1963. Kennedy's presidency is known as the "Camelot" era.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1960 The Minimalist movement begins and maintains an important place
> in the art world for about a decade. Practitioners include Carl Andre
> (born 1935), Robert Morris (born 1931), Dan Flavin (1933–1996), Brice
> Marden (born 1938), Robert Ryman (born 1930), and others.
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> 1961 Joseph Heller (1923–1999) publishes Catch-22, the author's first
> novel set against the background of his experience in World War II as
> a bombardier. The title becomes a catch-phrase to describe inescapable
> situations.
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> 1961 The phrase "concept art" is first used by Henry Flynt (born
> 1940). It comes to have a more general application to the work of
> artists Sol LeWitt (born 1928), Joseph Kosuth (born 1945), and others.
> During the following decade, Conceptual and performance art
> demonstrate the possibilities of making art without producing saleable
> objects.
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> 1962 The TWA terminal, designed by Eero Saarinen (1910–1961), is
> constructed at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. The building's
> poetic evocation of flight in its curving forms signals a turn away
> from the austerity of mid-century high modernism.
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> 1962 Andy Warhol (1928–1987) paints Campbell's Soup Cans, a key work
> of the Pop Art movement. Warhol and other artists associated with the
> movement, including Claes Oldenburg (born 1929) and Roy Lichtenstein
> (1923–1997), satirize Americans' voracious consumption of manufactured
> products in the postwar period.
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> 1962 Yale University's Art and Architecture Building, designed by Paul
> Rudolph (1918–1997), opens. It is an important monument of New
> Brutalism, a style that—in contrast to the trim and sleek aesthetic of
> 1920s modernism—emphasizes the tactility and roughness of its
> materials, often poured-in-place concrete.
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> 1963 Bob Dylan (born 1941) records "Blowin' in the Wind." The song
> becomes an anthem of the antiwar movement in the late 1960s and early
> '70s.
>



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