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been talking
talking about
about
DIY films,
films, and
and cranking
cranking out
out zines.
zines. In
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Apocalypse Now,
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w 1988;
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these
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of
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1981,
curator
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Crimp
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2001
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said,
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about Barnett
Barnett Newman’s
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in
an essay
essay asserting
asserting
“The End
End of
of Painting,”
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1958,
“All
pictures
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quality
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medium
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at
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than read.”
read.”
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modern era.
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tongs
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hammer and
and
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champion of
of photography,
photography, wrote
wrote that
that
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not
also
painting’s
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Guggenheim Museum
gestures into
into the
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just at
at Pop
Pop Art
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atR.Abstract
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claim to
to timeless
timeless universality
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dispenses
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abstraction through
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printing processes.
processes. But
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at how
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graffiti aggression.
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tenstein,
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from Apocalypse
Apocalypse Now.
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portraits
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at an
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them through
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and entombed
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Wool,
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in 1981),
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should be
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killed for
for so
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belligerent buoyancy.
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sardonic wit.
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to both
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intimations
of misunmisunpainting words
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in stacks
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and its
its appropriation
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and
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derstanding
and flayed
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race war.
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Left: Apocalypse Now,
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these nuanced images of words when he
1981, curator Douglas Crimp published
above: Untitled,
d 2001
said, about Barnett Newman’s stripes in
“The End of Painting,” an essay asserting
1958, “All pictures of quality ask to be
that the medium had been on life support
he used rich red ink, which he hacked at
looked at rather than read.”
throughout the modern era. Crimp, a
with a palette knife as it dried, leavening
In fact, Wool goes hammer and tongs
champion of photography, wrote that
energetic gestures into the mechanically
not just at Pop Art but also at Abstract
painting’s claim to timeless universality
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