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Peter Halley

Peter Halley is an artist based in New York. He was the publisher of Index Magazine.

The Dehumanization of Art: Jose Ortega y Gasset and Ad Reinhardt

Lately writers have defined post-modernism in various ways, but they share in common the belief that the age of modernist art is over and that a new set of theories is needed to describe art today.

John Waters Sitting, 1996

 

Peter Halley

I love art schools. They are just the only place where artists as students and teachers come together to talk about what makes works of art function; where issues of intentionality, syntax, and the responsibilities of authorship are regularly considered; and where success in galleries and the market is hardly ever a topic of conversation.

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The Brooklyn Rail

JUNE 2023

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