By Clark Doman ’23 The Earthworks movement of the late 1960s and 1970s is perhaps the clearest counter-hegemonic impulse of American art during the 1945-1970 period. In a novel attempt to escape the obsessive commodification of art by the private art market, galleries, museums, and the general public, artists like Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria,Continue reading “Why Double Negative Is Not Positively Counter-Hegemonic”
Category Archives: Spring 2023 Articles
Re-Entering the Game: One Town’s Persistence to Retain a Racist Mascot
By Jacob Irons ’25 Nestled in the corner of northeastern Connecticut lies Killingly High School. A school that has come under scrutiny in recent years regarding its choice of mascots: The Redmen and the Redgals. In 2019, the town’s Board of Education voted to remove the mascots from both their building and their identity andContinue reading “Re-Entering the Game: One Town’s Persistence to Retain a Racist Mascot “
From Unladylike to Unstoppable: Analyzing the Shift in Media Portrayal of BJK from 1964-1974
By Madeline Ladd ’25 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Six was the lucky number for tennis star Billie Jean King on September 20, 1973. On this date, she claimed victory in the famed Battle of the Sexes against former No. 1 ranked men’s tennis player and self-proclaimed male chauvinist Bobby Riggs. The consequences of the match wereContinue reading “From Unladylike to Unstoppable: Analyzing the Shift in Media Portrayal of BJK from 1964-1974 “
Soviets Success Shaped Team Play, Intense Training of Modern NHL
By Andrew McGuinness ’24 The Cold War was at its hottest for much of the 1970s and 1980s, creating an incredible amount of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union in countless aspects. One of the most heated facets, as it turns out, was hockey. Even people who, to quote Miracle on IceContinue reading “Soviets Success Shaped Team Play, Intense Training of Modern NHL”
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