“How have the finished and unfinished revolutions of the late 1960s changed the way we live today and think about the future?”
The V&A are hosting a major exhibition exploring the era-defining significance and impact that the late 1960’s has upon life today.
From fashion, film, civil rights, multiculturalism, consumerism and more; the world we live in today has been shaped and influenced by five revolutionary years in 1966-1970. You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966 – 1970 examines that moment when youth culture drove an optimistic idealism, an explosive sense of freedom, and questioned established power structures – resulting in a fundamental shift in the mindset of the Western World.
Hundreds of objects encompassing photography, posters, literature, music, design, film, fashion, artefacts, and performance – will show how a whole generation radically revolutionised the way they lived.
Highlights from the exhibition include underground magazines from Oz to the International Times; a rare Apple 1 computer; the suits worn by John Lennon and George Harrison on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; a shopping list written behind barricades during the 1968 Paris student riots; original artworks by Richard Hamilton; and plenty more.
You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966 – 1970
10 September 2016 – 26 February 2017. Tickets are £16 each.
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