"in the process of self-definition, an art form will tend toward the elimination of all the elements which are not in keeping with its essential nature. according to this argument, visual art will be stripped of all extravisual meaning, whether literary or symbolic, and painting will reject all that is not pictorial ."

~   barbara rose
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Opaque  by  andbamnan