Gerald Bivens

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I further suggest that the best model for the evolution of modernist painting is that of the dialectic understood as an unceasing process of perpetual radical self-criticism or, as I also put it, "perpetual revolution"; and I gloss my invocation of the dialectic by insisting on the latter's nonteleological nature: thus, I say that "the work of such painters as Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Frank Stella . . . aspires to be judged, in retrospect, to have been necessary to the finest modernist painting of the future."1

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  1. Michael Fried, "An Introduction to My Art Criticism," in Publication (City of publication: Publisher, Year published), Page range.