Discuss the connection between the art and the values of of the counterculture.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The youth movement in the 1960s was often portrayed as part of a larger generational clash against the culture of their parents, which they saw as materialistic, shallow, and conformist. The counterculture's art was exemplified in music, particularly through rock icons such as the American folk-singer turned electric rebel Bob Dylan and the British bands the Beatles and The Who. Particularly in France, a cinema revolution called the New Wave, led by the director Jean-Luc Godard, directly confronted materialism, sexuality, and political violence. The cinema began to challenge the conventions and conservative aesthetics of the mainstream. In short, it should not be an escape. It should depict life, not as heroic nor even coherent, but full of violence, cataclysm, and loss.