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...somnambulistic notations, proffering not a whit of meaning. One could possibly train ants to do it. Thus the German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven, 33, has assembled two huge panels, each made of several hundred sheets of paper scrawled with words-strings of unrelated numbers, written out in German. This arithmorrhea, she assures the catalogue reader, has nothing to do with mathematics. Nor, apparently, is it meant to be considered a work of the imagination. "A number of something (two chairs, or whatever) is something else. It's not pure number and has other meanings. If I were making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eight Cool Contemporaries | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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