The Art of the Sixties: Manufactured Mediums

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Oddball Films presents The Art of the Sixties: Manufactured Mediums, featuring films from an era of massive-scale manufacturing; a time when art and converged with science and industry. Utilizing metal fabrication, industrial printing techniques and communication technologies artists became inventors and inventors became industrialists. The program features the rare documentary Art of the Sixties (1967), featuring the monumental soft sculptures of Claes Oldenberg, the metal works of Barnett Newman, kinetic artist Len Lye, Les Levine’s interactive environments, action painter Jackson Pollock and more. A seldom seen NET documentary USA Artists: Robert Rauschenberg (1966) showcases a young Rauschenberg’s innovative “Revolvers” or “Combines”- multilayered painted sculptures that expand the boundaries of art. Merce Cunningham (1964) is very rare a French-made poetic montage of movement pioneer Merce Cunningham’s dance performances in collaboration with life partner and composer John Cage with “found object” sets by Robert Rauschenberg. Food for a Modern World (1960s), shows 60’s-style industrial farming on a massive scale while Theory of Communications: Learning as Self Learning (1960s) showcases large scale, surreal “visual aid” models in a science museum entertaining and educating inscrutable 60’s school children. People Who Work in Factories (1971) shows us an inside view of 1960’s manufacture of cars, bicycles reminiscent of Rauschenberg sculptures and more.

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