1968 - art history

Question 1

Answer 1

Summer of Love

1967 San Francisco, California

• Global Revolution*
• Free Love*
• Global Consciousness*
• “postive vibes, man”*

Question 2

Answer 2

Aftermath of Race Riots

1967

Detroit, Michigan

Earlier riots in Watts

Question 3

What date did the Tet Offensive begin?

Answer 3

January 31st 1968

Question 4

Answer 4

Tet Offensive (jan 31 968 - )

Photo of Vietnamese Civilians (Feb 2, 1968)

• Key year for photojournalism
• Shifting American attitudes
• Art World Questions: Is there such a thing as Non-political Art?

Question 5

Answer 5

Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a suspected Vietcong guerilla
in Saigon, Feb. 1, 1968.

Eddie Adams, photographer

Question 6

February 18th 1968, The US State Department announces what about Vietnam?

Answer 6

Highest Casualty Rate of Vietnam War.

543 Americans killed in previous week.

Question 7

February 29 1968:

Kerner Commission releases what?

Answer 7

Kerner Commission releases report on racial discrimination in the
U.S. following the 1967 race riots .

Kerner Commision

(aka National Advisory Commision on Civil Disorders)

was established by Lyndon B. Johnson specifically for the purpose of studying the causes of the 1967 race riots, in order to prevent them in the future.

“Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white - separate and unequal.”