Sexuality, Spirituality, and Culture in Modern Art

This is a visual culture class assignment.
Topic:Psychedelic Art and the New Age.
Write a three hundred word critical response with the reading and material covered in class (the readings and class discussion notes are attached, please read carefully on what idea we get from the class discussion notes, and don't forget to use the proper form for citations and references where required).
This is not an essay but an “engagement,” a thoughtful consideration of the ideas positioned in class and in the texts. If possible, try to include at least three quotations from the reading (do not cite the words or quotations in the class discussion notes, it only helps you understand what we talk about in class, and help you get to the right track).
Use the proper form for citations and references where required. Please read the class notes and really get a sense of what we focus on, and correspond the idea with the reading.
Our professor really cares about whether or not we do the reading and attend class, so please show it in the critical response, thank you so much!!
When you write the response, answer these questions:
Questions: how did the changing role of artist mirror modern subjectivity in this era—how did the conjunction of modernism and mass media contradictorily exalt/dismiss the role of the artist? What new art practices emerged at time? What important shifts took place between artist as producer and art as “product,” and how have these changes contributed to our present discourse of the meaning and purpose of art? Where might these shifts have originated?
Reading:
Zimmerman, Nadya. “The New Age Persona: Sex, Spirituality, and Escaping to the Now.” Counterculture Kaleidoscope : Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco University of Michigan Press, 2008, pp.124-154.