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Performance art wanted to emphasize that the creative act is the work of art not object itself. Minimalism was a focus on the pure formal qualities of a work of art with no attention to emotion or feeling. It also made use of geometric forms in painting and sculpture.
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The Vietnam War began in 1955 and was influental on art movements of the time.
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JOSEPH BEUYS, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965
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Untitled, Donald Judd, 1968,
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Worldwide revolts protested militarization and other changing political and social events.
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DONALD JUDD, Untitled, 1969. Brass and colored fluorescent Plexiglass on steel brackets
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Gloria Steinem was an influental feminist in this time and her article"After Black Power, Women's Liberation," had a great impact on the movement.
