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How to Look at Space

By Ad Reinhardt

All through history a man's idea of what was "real" depended mainly on how he felt and what he thought about "space."

<br /> “How to Look at Space,” <em>PM</em>, 1946. Image courtesy David Zwirner Gallery.

A Portend of the Artist as a Yhung Mandala

By Ad Reinhardt

The Art World was recreated in 4 days in 4 sections, 40 years ago, and originally in 4004 B.C.

<br /> <em>Portend of the Artist as a Yhung Mandala</em>. Originally published in ARTnews, 1956. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.

How Modern is the Museum of Modern Art?

By Ad Reinhardt

American Abstract Artists protest leaflet, 1940. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.

How to Look at Things Through a Wine-Glass

By Ad Reinhardt

A 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.

<br /> Ad Reinhardt, “How to Look at Things Through a Wine Glass,” 1946. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.

Cycles through the Chinese Lanscape

By Ad Reinhardt

“Cycles Through The Chinese Landscape” ARTNews, NY Dec. 1954.

Art of Life of Art

By Ad Reinhardt

How to get ahead and keep one's head above hot water in the art whirl.

<br /> Ad Reinhardt, “Art of Life of Art,” <em>trans/formation</em>, 1952. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.

Shape? Imagination? Light? Form? Object? Color? World?

By Ad Reinhardt

Published 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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