ISBN : 9782296546042
NEW YORK 1960-1970 CATCHING THE CONTEMPORARY
I chose to open my paper with this quotation from Raymond Williams'
Marxism and Literature, in order to immediately point out the peculiar
acceptation of the contemporary I will address in my analysis, which refers to a
specific time/space frame that is by all means interlocking with the artistic
processes developed within it. The contemporary, therefore, will be approached
as the here and now of a historical social formation, as living presence
attempted to be captured in its state of being, while it is affecting a complex
system of relations, beliefs and articulations of imagery within a specific
community.
I consider the 1960s decade in New York City a peculiar historical moment
when contemporary presences and processes have been not only "asserted and
reclaimed" but they worked as pivotal topics and obsessions, modeling the
ongoing reflexive represe