However, the
true defining moment, or rather
turning point,
in its
history is when it was discovered that four members of Michigan's basketball team had taken money from booster Ed Martin totaling $ 616,000.
True or untrue, myths surrounding the early funding of the movement by the CIA
in order to affect a form of American cultural Imperialism stick to the group; as does the pivotal position it holds
in the canon of art
history, as the
turning point when «art» migrated from Europe to America following the Second World War.