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9. After World War II a shift occurred in discussions of what kinds of art and art institutions were truly representative of the United States. The support in the 1930s for American scenes and a government-sponsored art accessible to the American public, part of a commitment to the notion of social responsibility, was replaced by a renewed emphasis on individualism and a suspicion of both federal funding for the arts and an American public too easily manipulated by demagogues and mass media. Discuss how this shift was manifested in works of art and in art criticism produced in the late 1940s and 1950s. 10. The human body has been a popular subject for artists for centuries. In the last decades of the 20th century and in the early 21st century, however, new technologies enabled artists to think in new ways about the nature of the body and how to represent it. Provide several examples of such technologies and the images that emerged from their use by artists