Hopelessly insular.

 

Hopelessly insular.
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Art critic Douglas Cooper on Manson's Tate, quoted in Frances Spalding, The Tate: A History (1998), pp. 62–70. Tate Gallery Publishing, London. ISBN 1854372319.

 

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