DICTIONARY: E-K

E

Ephemeral - lasting for only a short time (synonyms: transient, passing, temporary), in this courseware referring to Land Art constructions

Establishment - a pejorative term used in Western societies to refer to the controlling  (elite) structures of those societies; often said to be holding a lock on wealth and political power

Experimental Poetry - Unlike traditional poetry, experimental poetry is daring, original, and sometimes shocking. In its search for new values, it claims affinity with the archaic world of myth, legend, and traditional societies such as those of the American Indian. The forms are looser, more spontaneous, and organic. They arise from the subject matter and the feeling of the poet as the poem is written, and from the natural pauses of the spoken language

Explorer I - the first satellite launched by the USA

F

Free love - an ideology that love and sexual activities should be shared amongst many, and not be confined to long-term relationships

Free speech movement in 1964 - concentrated on the rights of students to pursue on campus- political activities began at the University of California at Berkley and as a result, the ban on political solicitation on campus was removed

G

Gestural form - the application of paint in free sweeping gestures with the brush, a method of painting used by Hard-edge painters

Great Society - Johnson's term for describing his socio-economic program for improvement of the country

H

Haight-Ashbury - a district of San Francisco California, named after the intersection of Haight Street and Ashbury Street, commonly known as The Haight, famous for its role as an epicenter of the 1960s hippie movement, and also as a hangout of the earlier beatnik movement

I

Idiosyncratic Poetry - poets developed unique styles drawing on tradition but extending it into new realms with a distinctively contemporary flavor by using innovative techniques

Immigration Act (1965) – limited  the number of the new immigrants to 170,000 per year

J

Jam - a musical act where musicians gather and play out of the blue, trying to accomplish harmony without prewritten music

K

Kinetic Art - a sculpture that actually moves, often using modern technology to achieve this.

Kinsey Reports - two controversial books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), by Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others