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The 1960s and 1970s were decades marked by intense reflections in Europe. The aftermath of World War II had shattered the elite classes and their vision of the world, the art world were no exception. New artistic ideas and styles emerged in response to this crisis across Europe, North America, and Asia. Influenced by deconstructionist and Marxist theories, traditional easel painting was increasingly treated as a product of the bourgeois. In order to against this backdrop, the Support/Surface movement emerged in southern France in 1969, aiming to liberate French art from centuries of …