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| | The Nation, 12/14/1985 - Art by Danto, Arthur C. |
 | | ...Posters, but also theater programs, menus, announcements of art shows, leaflets with various functions, album covers, throwaway entities all, have somehow defied their natural condition of gay brevity to be preserved for connoisseurs of graphic art in its highest embodiment... |
 | | ...The line between high and commercial art, between utilitarian and contemplative art, is boisterously erased in the radiance of Lautrec's^ achievement... |
 | | ...This was, after all, advertising art, plastered against the walls of fin de siecle Paris, on its kiosks or behind the bars in its brasseries and cafes, and was meant to arouse appetite and awaken desire... |
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