Ah, our horrid half-times

                  just the

                  time for

                  jesting.

 

There can be no question
but that a lot of people
believed that painting
was in trouble ..
















Jed Perl
New Art City
  From Ready-Mades
  to Cut-Outs
op. cit.

See also, especially,
Jed Perl
Magicians & Charlatans
  Essays on Art and Culture
  The Opportunist
op. cit.

Alexander Vandepuite
Niki de St Phalle
Jasper Johns