Figure 17.6 Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?, 1956, by Richard Hamilton, collage, 26 × 25 cm, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany. Images were cut from American magazines for a modern Adam and Eve. They are surrounded by all the consumer items considered necessary for the good life – or temptation.
Innovation and
Invention Pop Art in America reflected the new popular culture of music, advertising and consumerism.
Neo-Dada was a term applied to artists during the 1950s. This was a reference to the early 20th- century Dada movement (see Chapter 14, p. 208). During World War II, the French Dada artist Marcel Duchamp had moved to New York. By 1950, his ideas were becoming increasingly influential on younger artists in their use of new materials such as found objects.
Conceptual Art developed as boundaries were pushed out and new experimental forms of visual art began to develop.
Minimalism developed in the 1960s, but it is still prevalent today. The basic idea was to keep
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personal expression and artistic input to an absolute minimum.
The Feminist Art movement emerged in the late 1960s amidst the fervour of anti-war demonstrations, civil and gay rights movements.
Contemporary Art Movements
Land Art Also known as Earth Art, Land Art was part of the wider Conceptual Art movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Creating site-specific art was a very new idea.
Land Art: Site-specific art designed specifically for a particular location.
