Abstract

Art
Greenberg, Clement | January 30, 1943 issue

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A tendency dominant in painting since cubism is that which, by means of abstraction, collage, construction and the use of extraneous elements such as paper, cloth, sand, cement, wood, string, metal and so forth, tries almost literally to disembowel the painting. Its pictorial content no less than the physical fact of the canvas itself is to enter the actual presence of the spectator on the same terms and as completely, as do the walls, the furniture and people. What takes place within the borders of the picture has the same immediate status as the borders themselves.

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CUBISM; PAINTING; ART, Modern -- 20th century; PAINTERS; ART -- Exhibitions; ART
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