They did not have political theories, but they did have actions. Their goal was chaos. Groups of self-identified Yippies pulled off guerrilla theater, a term that referred to certain outdoor dramatic events concerning controversial political or social issues, events such as burning money in public, scattering money on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and laughing while stockbrokers scrambled after it, nominating a pig named Pigasus, a pun on the mythological winged horse name Pegasus for president, and disrupting the Democratic presidential nominating convention in Chicago in the summer of The most famous gathering was Woodstock in which thousands of people combined to listen to music and it became a complete insane universe unto itself when heavy rain turned the festival into a mudpit.
People camped in the mud, filthy, and stayed far too long listening to the music. There are plenty of people who still adhere to the principles that hippies hold dear. Nowadays, they are called bohemians or naturalists. You can read more about living a bohemian lifestyle or what it means to be a modern day hippie in these articles. Learn more about the movement in the trends and lifestyle sections here. Information contained on this page is provided by an independent third-party content provider.
Frankly and this Site make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. If you are affiliated with this page and would like it removed please contact pressreleases franklymedia. Sales - Beauty and Style. The hippie counterculture, which emerged in the late s and grew to include hundreds of thousands of young Americans across the country, reached its height during this period of escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War, and subsided as that conflict drew to a close.
In many ways, the hippies of the s descended from an earlier American counterculture: the Beat Generation. They listened to folk and rock music, not jazz; they dressed flamboyantly, in bright colors, where the Beats and beatniks had favored shades of black and grey. Ripped jeans, bell bottoms, tie-dyed clothing and flowers worn in the hair were all big parts of the typical hippie style. The biggest difference between the hippies and the Beats?
Seeking spiritual perfection through drugs, but particularly through psychedelic drugs. By wearing their hair long and growing beards for the men , taking drugs and exploring spirituality outside of the confines of the Judeo-Christian tradition, hippies sought to find more meaning in life—or at least have a good time. Many hippies eventually chose to move outside the city, where the cost of living was lower.
Hippies were perennially broke. On a growing number of rural communes, hippies joined disaffected political radicals and Vietnam draft dodgers in embracing back-to-the-land living, including free love, organic farming, vegetarianism, holistic medicine and a lot of marijuana use. According to Rorabaugh, hippies joined with political radicals in their support for the civil rights movement and their opposition to the Vietnam War.
The most identifiably political hippie group was the Diggers, an anarchist organization formed in in San Francisco. Although underappreciated, the movement influenced some of today's most famous living artists.
Perhaps the best example is James Turrell, who took Light and Space to new heights. Toward that end, these movements sought a unification of aesthetics and ethics, art and life, an idealism that inevitably fell short. Hippies were synonymous with protest — but their ideology could be vague in comparison to, say, the Paris student protests of May Credit: Alamy. The s marked a coming together of politics and counterculture, reminiscent of earlier modernist movements like dada and fluxus, though on a much larger scale.
The hippies and their offshoot groups, more than any other anti-establishment group at the time, integrated art and life in a way in which the two were indistinguishable — an idea that carries through to contemporary art today.
Even considering their participation in the civil rights and anti-war movements, the fact is that hippies had less at stake than those fighting for civil rights so that they could fully participate in society, not drop out. The hippies romanticised indigenous and eastern cultures without considering the suffering of poverty for their lack of modernity, experimenting with communal living and imaginary bohemia, creating an artificial marginality, which they saw as ethically righteous.
Not to mention their unapologetic cultural appropriation. The hippies fuelled cultural changes more than they did political ones — their dress, hairstyles and music preferences were easily co-opted by the establishment Credit: Getty. The anti-establishment, anti-academic and anti-mainstream ideas of the hippies were spread through zine-style publications and later in schools like the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
Here, the status quo was exploded and reassembled into new ways of thinking that echoed through art, literature and life well into the 21st Century.
The California Minimalism movement, while not commonly taught as part of the syllabus in university art history courses, was popular in southern California, says the curator of Endless Summer, Michael Darling. It has enjoyed a recent resurgence at art fairs and in major museum collections, not unlike the ideologies of the hippies. Yet the California Minimalists emerged from the macho s muscle-car scene and Los Angeles surf culture, fitting into modernity more than hippie culture, Darling tells BBC Culture.
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