A chief characteristics of twentiefth-century American art was the unfolding of an independent, individualistic, and self-determined aesthetic.
Many American artists shrugged off purely formalist views of modern art, and continued to make choices and experiment, rejecting closure and stability, breaking the rules prescribed by critics, challenging traditions.引自 Introduction
This greatly represents the innovation traits of American Art.
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