It was a reaction to the personal emotionalism of Abstract Expressionism and, taking a lead from the practice of Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters, denied traditional concepts of aesthetics. (en.wikipedia.org)
Your proverbial dichotomy or breaking in two seems to be flavored in emotionalisms not to be tenured but made as a s s u m e d traits of characterized sensual anomolies. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
In 1976, for instance, she gave a lecture at Yale University in which she outlined how this regard for emotionalism linked her more with Abstract Expressionism, than Minimalism. (visual-arts-cork.com)