1.What was unique about Pollock’s version of “abstract expressionism”?  How did it fit with earlier forms of modernism and abstractionism?  How was it different?  In what way, if any, did it serve as the bridge between the older forms of modernism and the new “action-oriented” genres of postmodernist art?

2.How did art change significantly from the 1960s onward?   What were some of these key changes or shifts?  How did art after from the 1960s embody a “spiritual” vision that was similar to, or different from, those perspectives, views, and strategies that had preceded it?

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