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Introduction
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Ia. Classicism and Originality
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Téodor de Wyzewa
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'Wagnerian Painting'
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1895
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Paul Signac
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from Eugene Delacroix to Neo- Impressionism
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1899
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Paul Gauguin
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Letter to Fontainas
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1899
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Sigmund Freud
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from 'On Dreams'
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1901
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Otto Weininger
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from Sex and Character
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1903
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Paul Cézanne
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Letters to Emile Bernard
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Maurice Denis (intro. Roger Fry)
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'Cézanne'
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1907
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Maurice Denis
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'From Gauguin and van Gogh to Neo-Classicism'
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1909
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Julius Meier-Graefe
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'The Mediums of Art, Past and Present'
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1904
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Giorgio de Chirico
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'Mystery and Creation'
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1913
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Ib. Expression and the Primitive
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August Endell
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'The Beauty of Form and Decorative Art'
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1897-8
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André Derain
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Letters to Vlaminck
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Programme of the Brücke
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1906
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Wilhelm Worringer
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from Abstraction and Empathy
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1908
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Henri Matisse
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'Notes of a Painter'
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1908
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Roger Fry
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'An Essay in Aesthetics'
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1909
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Wassily Kandinsky
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from Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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1911
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Wassily Kandinsky
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The Cologne Lecture
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1914
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Franz Marc
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The "Savages" of Germany' and 'Two Pictures'
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1912
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August Macke
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'Masks'
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1912
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Emil Nolde
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'On Primitive Art'
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1912
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Oskar Kokoschka
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'On the Nature of Visions'
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1912
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Alexander Shevchenko
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'Neo-Primitivism'
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1913
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Benedetto Croce
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'What Is Art?'
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1913
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Give Bell
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'The Aesthetic Hypothesis'
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1914
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Hermann Bahr
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from Expressionism
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1916
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Introduction
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IIa. Modernity
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Georg Simmel
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'The Metropolis and Mental Life'
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1902-3
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Max Weber
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'Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism'
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1904-5
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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'Party Organization and Party Literature'
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1905
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Henri Bergson
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from Creative Evolution
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1907
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Alexander Blok
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'Nature and Culture'
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1908
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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'The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism'
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1909
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Umberto Boccioni et al.
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'Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto'
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1910
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Robert Delaunay
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'On the Construction of Reality in Pure Painting'
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1912
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Percy Wyndham Lewis
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'Our Vortex'
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1914
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Franz Marc
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'Foreword'
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1914
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156
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Fernand Leger
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'Contemporary Achievements in Painting'
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1914
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
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'Gaudier-Brzeska Vortex' 1914, and 'Vortex Gaudier-Brzeska'
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1915
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Karl Kraus
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from 'In These Great Times'
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1914
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163
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Kasimir Malevich
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From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting
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1915-16
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KOMFUT
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'Programme Declaration'
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1919
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Vladimir Tatlin
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'The Initiative Individual in the Collective'
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1919
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Lyubov Popova
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Catalogue Statement
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1919
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Nikolai Punin
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'The Monument to the Third International'
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1920
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Alexander Rodchenko
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'Slogans' and 'Organizational Programme'
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1920-21
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Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova
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'Programme of the First Working Group of Constructivists'
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1922
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Alexei Gan
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from Constructivism
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1922
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El Lissitsky and Ilya Ehrenberg
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Statement by the Editors of Veshch
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1922
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LEF editorial
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Whom is LEF Alerting? 1
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1923
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Osip Brik
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'The So-called "Formal Method"'
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1923
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Osip Brik
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'From Picture to Calico-Print'
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1924
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Vladimir Tatlin
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'Report of the Section for Material Culture's Research Work'
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1924
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Introduction
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IVa. The Modern as Ideal
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Walter Gropius
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'The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus'
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1923
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IVb. Realism as Figuration
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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'On Proletarian Culture'
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1920
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IVc. Realism as Critique
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from Literature and Revolution
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from the First Manifesto of Surrealism
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'Declaration of the Bureau de Recherches Surréalistes'
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Surrealism and Painting
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'The New Realism Goes On'
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1936
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IVd. Modernism as Critique
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Introduction
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Va. The American Avant-Garde
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Clement Greenberg
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'Towards a Newer Laocoon'
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1940
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554
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Jackson Pollock
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Answers to a Questionnaire
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1944
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Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko with Barnett Newman
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Mark Rothko
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'The Romantics were Prompted . . . '
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Adolph Gottlieb
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Mark Rothko
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Barnett Newman
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'The Ideographic Picture'
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1947
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Barnett Newman
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'The First Man Was an Artist'
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1947
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Clement Greenberg
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'The Decline of Cubism'
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1948
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Barnett Newman
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'The Sublime Is Now'
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1948
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Jackson Pollock
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Interview with William Wright
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1950
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David Smith
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'Aesthetics, the Artist and the Audience'
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1952
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Clyfford Still
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Statement
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Harold Rosenberg
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1952
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Clyfford Still
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Letter to Gordon Smith
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1959
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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1946
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Jean Dubuffet
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'Notes for the Well-Lettered'
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1946
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Jean Dubuffet
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'Crude Art Preferred to Cultural Art'
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1948
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from Van Gogh: the Man Suicided by Society
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1947
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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'The Search for the Absolute'
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1948
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Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit
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from Three Dialogues
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1949
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Jacques Lacan
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'The Mirror-Phase as Formative of the Function of the I'
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1949
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Jean-Michel Atlan
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'Abstraction and Adventure in Contemporary Art'
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1950
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Francis Ponge
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'Reflections on the Statuettes, Figures and Paintings of Alberto Giacometti'
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1951
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Albert Camus
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'Creation and Revolution'
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1951
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615
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Michel Tapié
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from An Other Art
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1952
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Georg Baselitz
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'Pandemonium Manifestos 1
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1961-2
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Francis Bacon
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Interview with David Sylvester
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1962-3
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