Gerald Bivens

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modernist art

"It's something everyone can understand." It is, I think, hardly necessary to add that the availability of modernist art is not of that kind, and that the rightness or relevance of one's conviction about specific modernist works, a conviction that begins and ends in one's experience of the work itself, is always open to question.1

Notes

  1. Michael Fried, "Art and Objecthood," in Art and Objecthood (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 158-9.