集中收藏: 米爾頓·艾弗里《青春期》中的青少年與流行文化

March Avery 的造型——她的及膝白色連衣裙，肩部鋒利; 她的短髮和鈍劉海; and her blue bobby socks—firmly places this painting in 1947. The post-World War II economic boom during the late 1940s and 1950s brought with it an extraordinary optimism and cultural and social liberation, including a growing awareness of the “teenage” years as a unique stage of human development.

In the following years, the United States would see a meteoric rise in economic markets and a culture geared toward teenagers. In the cultural realm, this phenomenon was catapulted into a frenzy by Elvis Presley (1935–1977).

Elvis’s provocative stage presence was synonymous with the teenage rebellion that took place in the 1950s, and a catalyst for similar developments in youth culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

在這個視頻中, 克里斯·麥考利夫, a professor at Australian National University, 在堪培拉, discusses the adolescent “condition” and Milton Avery’s emphasis on his daughter’s contemporary style.