Lightshows and the cultural politics of light: mid-century cosmologies.

Autor:	Rycroft, Simon
Předmět:	20TH century counterculture OPTICAL art KINETIC art SPECIAL effects in lighting HISTORY of cosmology UNDERGROUND press publications LONDON (England) art scene HISTORY of London England TWENTIETH century HISTORY
Zdroj:	Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics & Culture; Jun2013, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p45-64, 20p
Abstrakt:	The practices of multimedia lightshows adopted by the British counterculture in London during the 1960s are related to aesthetic practices involving the use and manipulation of light in kinetic and op art. Both reflect a new sense of matter and energy that emerged from the adoption of post-Newtonian understandings of nature and the cosmos in the mid-twentieth century. The stereotypical cosmic mysticism with which the counterculture is associated was more techno-scientific than it is painted. The London underground press is a good source with which to elaborate this more nuanced reading. The counterculture’s cosmic speculation was as much earnest reflection on new vistas of nature and the universe as glib reflections on a Technicolor acid trip. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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