Cloze Test
Minimalism emerged in New York in the early 1960s -----51----- artists who were self-consciously renouncing recent art they thought had become stale and academic. A wave of new influences led younger artists to question conventional boundaries between various media. The new art preferred the “cool” -----52----- the "dramatic": their sculptures were frequently fabricated from industrial materials and emphasized anonymity. Painters and sculptors -----53----- overt symbolism and emotional content. -----54-----, they called attention to the materiality of the works. By the end of the 1970s, Minimalism -----55----- in America and Europe through a combination of forces including museum curators, art dealers, and publications, plus new systems of private and government patronage.
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