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Contemporary and Twenty-First-Century Art

Art made from roughly the 1980s onward, after the movements gathered under Mid- and Late Twentieth-Century Movements, including street art, digital and new media art, and the broad pluralist practice generally described simply as contemporary art. Belongs here: Contemporary Art, Street Art, Digital Art, and other movements and practices dated from the 1980s to the present. Does not belong here: Postmodernism and the other movements already grouped under Mid- and Late Twentieth-Century Movements, even where a given figure's career continues into this later period.

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20 1
Geographic Origin
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1. Wikipedia: Contemporary art
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  • Contemporary art, lead section, definition sentence
    Contemporary art is generally art created from the 1970s onwards.
  • Contemporary art, scope sentence
    Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world.
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