February 27, 2008

Manny Faber, " White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," Negative Space (Praegere, 1971): 134-44.

"Most of the feckless, listless quality of today's art can be blamed on its drive to break out of a tradition while, irrationally, hewing to the square, boxed-in shape and gemlike inertia of an old, densely wrought European masterpiece" (134).