70s Archives - Ex-Plain

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One Free Ride: When Texas Prison Inmates Became Rodeo Cowboys

For more than fifty years, the Texas Prison Rodeo turned incarceration into public entertainment, drawing massive crowds to Huntsville to…

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In 1974, Soviet authorities used bulldozers, arrests, and violence to destroy an unsanctioned outdoor art exhibition, only to ignite an…

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A stolen white Porsche 911 in 1970s Yugoslavia turned an ordinary car thief into an urban legend. For several nights,…

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In the postwar era, pharmaceutical print advertising, especially for psychiatric drugs, was blunt, graphic, and often disturbing, using fear and…

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Moving to West Berlin, David Bowie and Iggy Pop found unexpected inspiration in German Expressionism, most notably in the form…

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Founded in 2018, COMRADE Gallery has grown into one of the most compelling new archives of Eastern Bloc visual design.…

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Graffiti, one of the most pervasive aspects of spontaneous creativity in modern life has surprisingly simple stylistic origins, and while…

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In 1985, when Richard Avedon's In the American West debuted, it didn’t just surprise people, it unsettled them. Avedon, the…

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Big-name endorsements and sharp visual design from the classic era of Sunn amplifiers.

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Forget Japan—This small Baltic country is possibly the true master of surreal and weird animation, here are the films that…