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"Not sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, but great innocence was on the program when it came to art around 1968. In a seemingly naïve, but generally friendly way, the methods and means commonly used by artists were put into question. From Joseph Beuys to Andy Warhol, from Louise Bourgeois to Lawrence Weiner, more than two hundred artists took a new measure of the world. They fought the museums. They filled the august genres of painting and sculpture with irony. They themselves took on the tasks of operating spaces and critical formats. What was presented as innocent was meant as an extremely defiant correction of the art system. As was the case with the student revolts, it was about a nation of overarching impulse. The artists clearly put themselves at the center. It was the beginning of contemporary art culture"--p. web Kunsthalle Bielefeld.