1. Who is the West? The “Atlanticist” version February 20, 2012

2. The “international style” in architecture - here: Mies van der Rohe and his Lake Shore Drive apartments (built 1949-51)

3. Chicago’s Federal Plaza, also designed by Mies (built 1960-74)

4. Mies in West Berlin: The New National Gallery, completed 1968

5. The “Chancellor’s Bungalow,” Bonn (built 1963-66)

6. Danish modern furniture – a typical style in Europe and the US

7. Maria Callas (1923-1977) a trans-Atlantic diva

8. Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) New York’s answer to the European classical tradition

9. Pop art: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) - example from 1963

10. Tom Wesselmann, Landscape No. 2 (1964)

11. A German collector of pop art, 1968

12. Pop art displayed at Berlin’s New National Gallery, 1969

13. The Frankfurt School of Social Research (closed 1933)… Theodor Adorno (1903-1969)

14. … feeds into the New School for Social Research (Greenwich Village, NYC) Other associated theorists: Max Horkheimer Hannah Arendt Claude Lévi-Strauss

15. NATO in consultation: the North Atlantic Council (Athens, Greece, May 1962)

16. Polaris nuclear missile submarines

17. The launch of HMS Resolution, Britain’s first Polaris

18. Cartoon lampooning the proposed “Multi-Lateral Force”

19. LBJ gives Chancellor Erhard a big Texas welcome (Dec. 1963)

20. Tom Lehrer sings the “MLF Lullaby” (written 1964/65)MLF Lullaby