V Contemporary art after the 1970s
From the late 1960s when the mood for changes of the society and consciousness
heightened, artists began extensively incorporating in their works letters, signs,
photographic images, and natural objects such as stones, trees, and water. In
the 1970s, it seemed that paintings and sculptures in traditional forms disappeared
from the center stage of contemporary art. It was only in the late 1970s that,
as artists tried to reconsider the meaning of the act of producing (or painting),
the space of the painting deepened and revived, and sculptures restarted. This
section focuses mainly on achievements after the 1980s: paintings, sculptures,
and photographs aiming at disclosing, through presentation of pure forms, the
gdepth&rdquo of visual experience as the space where various functions
of consciousness, such as memory, association, and language, entangle each other.
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