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Showing posts with label Lester Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lester Johnson. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Artists without faces. Or what do you hang your hat on? Jean Gabin, Cecily Brown, Dana Schutz and John Currin.

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                         Artists without faces.                Or what do you hang your hat on?           Cecily Brown, Dana Schutz an...
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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Lester Johnson's painting

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Johnson 1960's History has established itself as the final arbiter of the value of the life the artist lives and the art they pro...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

William Bailey and Donald Judd

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            I have written about almost all my teachers from college: Al Held on on my blog and "Artdeal" , Lester Johnson on “...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Just stumbled across this reply to my Lester Johnson piece on Berkshire Fine Arts by the poet Rosanna Warren. Google every gallery on earth and you will find 99% are exhibiting "one show": a found object(ersatz sculpture ) on the floor, photo-document on the wall and a pseudo-profound statement about some group in need of uplift into the Hegelian dialectic.Global group think!!

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Figurative Expressionist:Lester Johnson --> Dear Martin, What an extraordinary piece. I wish I could have seen the Johnson ...
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I am an artist and art critic whose ideas have shaped the discussion of postmodern art as well as the ideas behind Modernism.In particular some people think I coined Zombie Formalism
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