Sublimation – Mind, Matter, Concept in Art after ModernismDuring the "long Sixties," a period coined by Arthur Marwick to describe the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, artists, critics and theorists criticized established notions regarding works of art as autonomous aesthetic objects designed primarily for visual contemplation in the allegedly neutral space of a gallery. They confronted, in other words, the Modernist conception of art espoused by influential American art critic Clement Greenberg and his followers.
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