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Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani, is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.
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"Criticism and Its Premises" (p. 138)

 

Harold Rosenberg

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