Word: amerika
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favor of finding some liberated space, or even a liberated moment, within it. And from goths to rastas to ravers to slackers, the focus of countercultural tribes is on evolving alternative identities. This apolitical tribalism is self-perpetuating. When you're trying to end a war or overthrow "Amerika," your cry is "Join us!" When you're trying to maintain a semioriginal identity, popularization is a threat to the purity of the tribe...
...American affluence. But the 1960s brought one great revolution in American life--civil rights--and many smaller ones. Religious dogma, journalistic objectivity, middle-class morality--all came under assault as the war sputtered on. Pleasures were now political statements; student opposition to the war turned into an assault on Amerika. By 1970, when four students at Kent State were killed by National Guardsmen, Abbie Hoffman's "revolution for the hell of it" seemed nothing like revolution and an awful lot like hell. Recoiling, voters rejected the vaguely countercultural George McGovern in favor of four more years with Nixon. That...
Some things go slowly, like the piece titled Paradiso, 1993, hung from the Guggenheim dome: two enormous breastlike funnels drip a white liquid into the ornamental pool far below, drawing an imaginary line and suggesting grace | coming, rather parsimoniously, from heaven. Others go fast, like Untitled (Amerika), 1990, Horn's image of nomadic life and rootlessness: a beat-up suitcase with a thermometer inside flaps agitatedly along a line slung across the open well of the building...
...movie studios were living it. On back lots all over the world, the harshly practical has always confronted the giddily romantic. In his faux documentary INTERVISTA (Interview), Federico Fellini imagines a fictional Japanese television crew interviewing him as he shoots an equally fictive movie version of Kafka's Amerika. The result is not so much a self-portrait as a sentimental-satirical vision of back-lot life, a jazzy juxtaposition of past and present, star egos and bit-player frustrations, epic pretensions and commercial hackery. It's a movie for movie lovers, especially those who romanticize the moviemaking process...
...American soul. Contrary to the fantasies of the recent left about an imperial Amerika, it is hard to think of a great power with less taste for empire than the United States. Empire? The most universal response to the hegemony that our Asian and European alliances brought us is the chorus of Washington voices demanding allied "burden sharing." For Americans, empire is a pain...