Cildo Meireles
Eureka/Blindhotland (1970–5)
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Hans Haacke
A Breed Apart (1978)
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The term pluralism in a general context refers to a social structure in which many small groups maintain their unique cultural identity within a broader culture.
The art historian Rosalind Krauss characterised the art of the late 1960s and 1970s period as:
Diversified, split and factionalised. Unlike the art of the last several decades, its energy does not seem to flow through a single channel for which a synthetic term, like abstract expressionism, or minimalism, might be found. In defiance of the notion of collective effort that operates behind the very idea of an artistic ‘movement’, 70s art is proud of its own dispersal.