Word: boringâ
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Curious Syndrome. Kitaj's visual skill spares him from making just word games. He is coming to realize that source dropping can become as precious?and boring???as name dropping. As he could learn from another expatriate, the late T. S. Eliot, it is the poetry, not the footnotes, that made The Wasteland great. Kitaj himself admits that most of his catalogue explications are, he cheerfully confesses, "Red herrings." Though he greatly admires the work of DeKooning, Kline and Pollock, he objects to total abstraction. "I'm likely to be moved by what is peripheral to the picture itself," says...
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