Output details
35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
University of Leeds : A - Music
Article title
La banalité de la dégradation : Andy Warhol, le Velvet Underground et l'esthétique trash
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
-
Title of journal
Volume!
Article number
-
Volume number
1
Issue number
2012/1
First page of article
9
ISSN of journal
2117-4148
Year of publication
2012
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
Yes
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
The US 1960s has become closely associated with moral crusades that strove for Civil Rights for the black community and protested against the conflict in Vietnam, with the pacific gestures of the hippies to the fore. This essay argues, however, that the seeds of a more subversive underground movement would be sown during the period and a new artistic ethos, centred on Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground and an emerging trash aesthetic, would not only challenge the psychedelic utopianism of the organised counterculture but actually leave a longer-lasting mark on left-field creative activity in the final quarter of the century.
