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Ad Reinhardt
How to Look at Space
By Ad ReinhardtAll through history a man's idea of what was "real" depended mainly on how he felt and what he thought about "space."
A Portend of the Artist as a Yhung Mandala
By Ad ReinhardtThe Art World was recreated in 4 days in 4 sections, 40 years ago, and originally in 4004 B.C.
How Modern is the Museum of Modern Art?
By Ad ReinhardtAmerican Abstract Artists protest leaflet, 1940. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.
How to Look at Things Through a Wine-Glass
By Ad ReinhardtA modern painter's worst enemy is the picture-maker who somehow creates in people the illusion that one need not know anything about art or art-history to understand it.
Cycles through the Chinese Lanscape
By Ad Reinhardt“Cycles Through The Chinese Landscape” ARTNews, NY Dec. 1954.
Art of Life of Art
By Ad ReinhardtHow to get ahead and keep one's head above hot water in the art whirl.
Shape? Imagination? Light? Form? Object? Color? World?
By Ad ReinhardtPublished in Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Words on Revolution. Ed. Ned O’Gorman (New York: Random House, 1969).
The Next Revolution in Art
(Art-as-Art Dogma, Part II)
By Ad Reinhardt
The next revolution in art will be the same, old, one revolution.
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