The apex 1966 works of Dylan and Warhol bracketed the same summer.

Evidence

The summer of 1966 was bracketed by the release of two sprawling masterpieces. New York’s reigning masters of hip, the two most analyzed mid-century American artists, each produced a magnum opus. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan’s audacious double record—one of the four sides devoted to a single cut, the eleven-and-a-half-minute “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”—appeared in late June. The Chelsea Girls, Andy Warhol’s epic three-and-a-half-hour double-screen movie, had its premiere mid-September at the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 906