1968 in Art and Culture

A bit of rebellion is not enough: the determination to break radically with existing conditions also influenced developments in music in the late 1960s. By Christian TaggerMore ...

Breaking through boundaries is part of the logic of avant-garde movements in modern art. In the course of the 20. century the boundaries of that which constitutes a picture or a sculpture were gradually shifted until they reached the point where the institutional conditions and prerequisites of art itself were called into question. By Anja Osswald More ...

No other item of clothing stands for the radical social change of the 1960’s than the miniskirt. But nothing else also reveals so clearly the ambivalences of these oft-cited „wild years“ of the still-young Federal Republic. By Anja OsswaldMore ...

Filmmaking in Germany in the 1960’s struck out on new paths. But what was “new” about the “New German Film”? A look at film production during those years shows that creative potential arises above all through the acceptance of heterogeneity and difference. By Volker PantenburgMore ...