My Chronology

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dATeS	eVeNtS in DeNNiS OppEnHeiM's LiFe	ArTs aNd LiTeRaTuRe	PoLiTiCs	SCieNcE aNd PHiLoSophY
1930	1938: Dennis is born September 6 in Electric City, Washington	1920-1930: Surrealism becomes popular movement. 1938: War of the Worlds is released, causes hysteria.	1929: Stock Market Crashes. Great Depression Begins. 1938: Germany occupies Austria. 1939: World War II begins in Europe.	1932: First Polaroid glass is devised by Edwin H. Land. 1934: Nylon is first produced by a chemist in DuPont Labs.
1040	Dennis attends school, and is displeased with the conformity within his community.	1941: Edward Hopper paints "Nighthawks." 1945: Fashion magazine Elle is founded. December 1947: the children TV series Howdy Doody premieres on NBC.	December, 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters World War II. 1944: World War II ends. 1949: NATO is established.	1940: Radios are in 30 million American homes. 1941: Penicillin is mass produced. 1945: Commercial TV comes closer to reality when FCC allocates 13 channels for the new medium.
1950	1950: At age 12, Dennis takes a puppet making class. 1958: Dennis attends California College of Arts and Crafts. 1959: Dennis gets married. Daughter, Kristen is born.	1950-1955: Marylin Monroe becomes famous. 1952: Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man is published. 1950: Abstract Expressionism like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline received official recognition at New York Museum of Modern Art.	1950: Korean War begins. 1950- 1955: McCarthyism- Joseph McCarthy begins his Anti-Communist crusade.	1955: Dramatic increase in the sales of home appliances, new homes, and televisions. April 1955: The Salk vaccine against polio is introduced. June 25, 1957: CBS presents the First commercial color TV broadcast.
1960	1961-1965: Dennis studies and teaches in the Bay Area 1966: Dennis receives his Master's degree from Stanford University. He moves to New York City. 1967: Sitemarkers begins Earth Art. 1968: Annual Rings. Second daughter, Chandra, is born.	1965-1966: West Coast Neodada becomes popular form of thought. Artforum covers most of the information on this movement. 1966 -67: Minimalism becomes popular form of art. 1969: Robert Smithson's Asphalt Rundown begins environmental art. 1969: Woodstock Festival	1961: Cold War begins in Europe with construction of the Berlin Wall. 1964 U.S. enters Vietnam War. 1967: Anti-VietnamWar Movement begins	1960: Marijuana use soars. Trascendental Meditation and Zen Buddhism become popular. 1969: Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
1970	1970: Dennis begins his Body Art phase with Reading Position... 1974: Dennis begins to move on from Body Art and begins the "surrogate performer" phase with Theme for a Major Hit and Attempt to Raise Hell. 1979: Dennis begins his career with machines. Beyond the Tunnel of Hate is installed at Kent State University.	1970: Pop Art represented by Andy Warhol. Performance Art challenges the traditional, stationary aspect of art. 1972: Ursula Meyer's book, Conceptual Art is published. 1974: Joseph Beuys's I Like America and America Likes Me, takes place in New York.	1970: Five Students are shot by the National Guard during a peace rally at Kent State University. 1975: Vietnam War ends.	Atari produces the first low-priced integrated circuit TV games. VCR changes home entertainment.
1980	1980- 1984: Dennis works on Factories and Fireworks. 1984- 1987: Dennis takes a break. 1988: Stove for High Temperature Expression. 1989: Dennis begins a new series of sculptures called the Power Tools series.	1980: Cable is born and MTV has enormous impact on music and young people. 1985: Rock Hudson dies of AIDS. 1986: Andy Warhol dies at 59 years of age. His estate contains Dennis' installation of Theme For a Major Hit.	1981: Reagan takes office. 1989: Cold War ends when Berlin Wall is torn down.	1986: Space shuttle Challenger explodes.
1990	1990: Dennis installs ten rooms of new sculpture at Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles 1999: Land Art 1968-1978 Exhibit at Haines Gallery	Martha Stewart becomes the guru of home crafts and design. Mega Movie Houses sprout up- with up to 24 theaters in each.	1990- 1992: Persian Gulf War. 1993: Bill Clinton becomes President.	Feng Shui becomes popular. 1992: World Wide Web is born. 1998: 100 million people use web.

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