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| Arthur Boyd Bride Drinking from a Creek 1960 oil paint on hardboard Tate Gallery |
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| R.B. Kitaj The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg 1960 oil paint and paper collage on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| John Piper The Forum 1961 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Jean Dubuffet Spinning Round 1961 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Nancy Spero Lovers 1962 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
from The New Realism
I have lost the beautiful dreams
That enlisted on waking,
Cold and waiting. That world is a war now
The portable laugh eclipsing another place
The warrior's bonnet holds sand.
The blond headdress is soggy
The ray carried your picture away
If space could imagine a pilot
The clouds were rags, wheat the sun
A small dancer decorated the coverlet with gore
A perforated fountain assumed
That the center cravat was the right one
The one with peach halves and violets
And buzzing soda water
Out of the serene
Blackening with space, its blankness
Cast waterward, the grim engine
Chugging . . .
– John Ashbery, from The Tennis Court Oath (Wesleyan University Press, 1962)
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| Anne Redpath The Poppy Field ca. 1963 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Elizabeth Blackadder Still-Life with Pomegranates 1963 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Patrick Caulfield Still-Life with Dagger 1963 household paint on hardboard Tate Gallery |
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| Sidney Nolan Woman in a Hat ca. 1964 oil-on-board Tate Gallery |
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| Charles Hardaker Still-Life - Vertical Structures, Three Times Three 1965 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Georg Baseliltz Rebel 1965 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Peter Kinley Yellow Flower 1966-67 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
The Animals
All these years behind windows
With blind crosses sweeping the tables
And myself tracking over empty ground
Animals I never saw
I with no voice
Remembering names to invent for them
Will any come back will one
Saying yes
Saying look carefully yes
We will meet again
– W.S. Merwin, from The Lice (Atheneum, 1967)
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| Sheila Fell Haystack in a Field 1967 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Richard Smith Riverfall 1969 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |