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Arts, Literature & TV Pedigree
Pop Art A review of the pop art period and style with a link through to more details on David Hockney including some excellent thumbnail pictures of his paintings, expandable to full screen size. The
Andy Warhol Museum This website is an online translation of an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art examines trends and ideas in art in a cleverly designed timeline over the four decades from 1939 to 1979. The
100 Books of the Century Everything you need to know about the Sixties is a web page dedicated to the sights and sounds of this psychedelic era. It is an American website that actually recommends books and publications about the era. Get an Online Degree in one of the many growing fields available, select from a choice of qualified and well-recognised schools. They are shrill, colourful and simply crazy: The wallpapers from the wild seventies. Make your choice from a huge range of wallpapers and order online from this German website. Pop art paintings of Sixties icons such as Bob Dylan and the Beatles by the talented Jill van Hoorn. Peruse her selection or commission one of your own. Dedicated to "preserving the memory of television classics past and present, television history, star interviews and hundreds of show reviews." A-Z listing of US and UK programmes including the years of transmission, summaries, reviews and background information TV CreamTV Cream is a website with over 1600 cult TV shows from the UK and US, with theme tunes, images of popular shows and descriptions of programmes from the 1960s 1970s and 1980s. From Adam Adamant to Young Ones its full of reviews, pictures and cast lists. BBC
Cult TV Now this was a 1967 cult TV show of the first order and the official website is Six of One. Join them and learn all you could ever want to know about Patrick McGoohan's strange masterpiece. Watched It! - Classic Kids TVThe internet's premier website devoted to classic children's television. The site for those of us who were kids in Britain in the 60s and 70s. This site is heavy on the graphics - but once you get through the starting movie there is a wealth of material on this classic 60s puppet series that still wows the kids today. At the Trumptonshire Web you will find everything there is to know about the three Trumptonshire series that began life in 1966. If you recall "Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb" then remind yourself of plenty more. There is also plenty about Gordon Murray's "Camberwick Green". The Clangers are an icon to the culture of the late 60’s. Created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, this children’s animation series is explained in detail at this site. Also from the creators of the Clangers came the extraordinary Saga of Noggin the Nog (1959-65), "the adventures of a decent Viking prince, and his not-so-decent uncle." This site gives you links to other creations Bagpuss (1973-74) and Ivor the Engine (1958-63). This site developed from a school-based tape-recording club known as the Transdiffusion Networking Association and set up in 1964. It's full of material about the early ITV companies and its strength is the coverage of old schools material. TV
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