And both fields contributed to the profound fragmentation of mainstream art, which is also a major aesthetic fact of the last 30 years.

Her extreme self-consciousness grows out of the focus on means rather than ends that entered mainstream art in the 1960's.

After Red Wedge, he found it difficult to get other bookings due to the decline of political poetry as a mainstream art.

Others have urged the endowment to underwrite only mainstream art or go out of business.

But Burden's masochistic performance art had something in common with more mainstream American art of the 1960s and 1970s.

During the past several decades, we have also seen aspects of popular art, like cartoons and caricatures, taking a greater place in mainstream art.

But dance by black artists is helping renew and reshape the mainstream art that it is at last a part of.

Traveling Europe, he became "permeated by the mainstream art of the era."

It is a language about which mainstream art and art history are only beginning to get a clue.