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Albert Einstein warned against the hydrogen bomb on US national TV.
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Pop Art
Art movement that used images and themes from popular culture.
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Eisenhower is elected as president
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U.S. Explodes First Hydrogen Bomb
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Scanning electron microscope invented
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Watson and Crick determine double helical structure of DNA
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Supreme court rules segregated schools as illeagal.
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First organ transplant
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Woodlands Style
Canadian movement that emphasises x-ray lines of people, animals, and plant life. Also known as medicine or legend painting. -
Allen Ginsberg's HOWL printed in England, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity.
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Debut of Barbie
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Magic Realism
This art was often typified by remarkable detail and sharp focus. It plays with perception of what is real and what is fictional. -
Kennedy is elected as President
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First weather Satellite
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Fluxus
This movement is characterized by a reductive quality to their work, as well as the use of many different art disciplines fused into one. -
First Electronic watch is marketed
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U.S. President Kennedy is assasinated
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Civil Rights Act passed
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Op Art
Optical art is one that uses optical illusions to emphasize the relationship between the illusion and the picture plane. -
Discovery of microwave background by Penzias and Wilson
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The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
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A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; 3 college students are killed.
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Photorealism
Paintings made with the use of camera images, resulting in a life like piece. -
Land Art
Movement which uses land as a medium. -
Nixon is elected as President
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Neil Armstrong is first man on the moon
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Mail Art
Characterized as one on one commentary and collaboration using mail as a medium. -
First Earth Day. Clean Air Act is passed.
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Post-minimalism
Decribes work that is influenced or attempts to go beyond the minimalist aesthetic. -
Harmful effects of Acid rain is documented
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Invention of laser discs.
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Instillation Art
Site-specific interior art works that are made especially for where they are going to be shown. -
Oil-exporting nations of OPEC raise prices, set off energy crisis
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The MITS Altair 8800 is hailed as the first “personal” computer
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Lucy the homonid is found
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The New York Post publishes an article about David Rorvik's book The Cloning of Man, about a supposed cloning of a human being.
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Neoism
Neoism is an international subculture which put itself into simultaneous continuity and discontinuity with experimental arts -
First case of AIDs documented
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1981 Initial stock offering by Genentech signals era of biotechnology
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Figuration Libre
Reaction to the intellectualized and rational Concept Art, the French artists developed a figurative and individualized form of art. -
First measurement system of El Niño/La Niña
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Apple introduces the mouse and the pull-down menu
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Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes
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Brit Art
Group of British artists that are noted for shock tactics, use of throwaway materials, wild-living, and an attitude both oppositional and entrepreneurial. -
Bush elected President
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Determination that DNA from a single hair can identify an individual
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Communist rule in Eastern Europe crumbles; Berlin Wall falls
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Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career.
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Massurrealism
Massurrealism is characterized by the convergence of surrealism and mass media, influenced by pop art. -
End of Cold War
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World Wide Web is released (invented at CERN 1988)
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On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show ("Same-Sex Crushes"), Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show.
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Physicists create a new form of matter, the long-sought Bose-Einstein condensate, allowing easier exploration of quantum mechanics
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The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.
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NSF begins work on a new U.S. research station at the South Pole
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Stuckism
Stuckism promotes figure painting in contrast to conceptual art.
