Protest movements transformed Western art’s technical repertoire and freed it from academic tradition

Evidence

Culturally and socially, the artists tend to acquire a stature that their works do not have aesthetically. Consequently, it is necessary to consider the evolution of a history of Western art, where art, enriched by the political and social protest movement, starts to integrate new techniques of representations while trying to release itself from the academic tradition. It is in this respect that black artists bring a new outlook to visual aesthetics which also enables them to consider a creative process from a specifically contemporary point of view integrating the memory and the conscience of their black culture and identity. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2908

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels how outsider movements generally reshape mainstream forms while being denied authorship credit — akin to jazz in music or punk’s absorption.