Rethinking Art: Objects and Ideas from the 1960s and 70s

You would not normally associate rock salt, dictionary definitions, fluorescent light tubes or urethane foam with art. But accompanying the social and political upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, American artists began to rethink everything from the process of making art and ways of presenting it to the materials they used.

Rethinking Art comprises artworks by 10 artists from the collections of the Akron Art Museum and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, including several key artistic thinkers of the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition presents a sampling of explorations during that period that changed the future of contemporary art.