Nikolas Kozloff: Developing an authentic ‘counter-culture’ will be difficult
As an idealist, I always like to assume that radical revolutions will inevitably cultivate a kind of "counter-culture" in opposition to the establishment and prevailing norms. Take, for example, the Mexican Revolution with its mural art, or even the Russian Revolution which in its initial phase at least spurred great innovations in film. In more recent times, the '60s generation developed its own radical counter-culture based around music. To what extent have other rebellions developed their own distinctive cultural voice? For answers, I recently traveled to Ukraine where demonstrators overthrew the unpopular government of Viktor Yanukovych just over a year ago.