As the ideas and perspectives from non-white artists, queer artists, and those with other intersectional identities were given space in the museum throughout the 1990s, the terrain of art history began to shift as well.
Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese
Through manipulation of media, these artists questioned the possibility and the significance of “originality.”
The Pictures Generation
Basquiat appropriated wildly—and creatively—from Old Masters, Picasso, anatomical textbooks, and even jazz.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Horn Players
Through manipulation of media, these artists questioned the possibility and the significance of “originality.”
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