![]() ![]() The exuberant image worlds of the USA, its consumer culture, landscapes, suburbs and brownfields also fascinated many of the most influential photographers of the day, and their works are represented in the exhibition by prominent names like Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore and Garry Winogrand. The historical background of artistic exploration in those days consisted of events like the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and the oil crisis. In historical, aesthetic and social terms, the curators have placed Photorealism from around 1970 in the context of parallel art movements Pop Art, Concept Art, Land Art and New Topographics. The exhibition brings together 250 works by 100 artists who have not yet been seen in Germany in such abundance and collocation. The Aachen station explores artistic reflections on the American Way of Life in the context of social and political developments. The Mother Ship of the Ludwig Collection, which is today distributed around the world, will function as a link for a first collaborative series of exhibitions in the Ludwig Museums in Aachen, Vienna and Budapest. With the exhibition Hyper Real – Kunst und Amerika um 1970 the Ludwig Forum Aachen celebrates its 20 th anniversary. ![]()
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