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Easy Rider (Columbia Pictures; Dir. Dennis Hopper)

Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 29 September 1969

"The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations. (Or if it is an idea, it is about the form of sensibility.) The most interesting works of contemporary art are adventures in sensation, new 'sensory mixes'."
— Susan Sontag, "On Culture and The New Sensibility"

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