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Brosseau Center for Learning: Nixon and The Seventies

Brosseau Center for Learning: Nixon and The Seventies

Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

This installation art and pop culture references from the 1970s supports Jonathan Hagel’s HIST 517 The Seventies: American History.

Works of art

United Press International (founded 1907), "He unearthed microfilmed secrets of the state in a pumpkin on a Maryland farm; posed for pictures while examining the film under the traditional sleuth's magnifying glass"

Esquire magazine (founded 1933), "…a President for demonstrators."

United Press International (founded 1907), Richard Nixon

United Press International (founded 1907), "Richard Nixon Examines the Hiss film 'found' in a Pumpkin"

Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Tom Leeson (born 1945), Erasure

Esquire magazine (founded 1933), "...a President for the leather boys."

Esquire magazine (founded 1933), "…behold a President for Black Nationalists"

Esquire magazine (founded 1933), "Now, let's try to imagine the President's daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David Eisenhower, styled to fit the swinging world of 1969..."

Frank Stella (1936–2024); Gemini G.E.L. (founded 1966), Six Mile Bottom

Laurence Aëgerter (born 1972), Taraxacum officinale i.a. - Gaza, Palestina

Walter Bernard (born 1937), The Unmaking of a President

Wide World Photos (founded 1941), William Wheeler and Richard Nixon

Jenny Holzer (born 1950), untitled (Truisms)

Julio Fernández Larraz (born 1944), "We'd Get Along Without You Very Well"

Sol LeWitt (1928–2007); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004), Lines of One Inch, Four Directions, Four Colors

Roy De Forest (1930–2007), untitled

Michael Andrews (born 1945), untitled

John Baldessari (1931–2020), A Sentence of Thirteen Parts (With Twelve Alternate Verbs)
Ending in Fable

David Levine (1926–2009), Nixon

Ben Somoroff (1915–1984), Richard M. Nixon's Chinese Feast

United Press International (founded 1907); Frank Cancellare (1910–1985), "Why is This Man Laughing?"

David Hockney (born 1937), An etching and a lithograph for Editions Alecto 1973

Julio Fernández Larraz (born 1944), "We'd Get Along Without You Very Well"