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| | Clyfford Still: the importance of being earnest by Daniel Kunitz |
 | | Clyfford Still: the importance of being earnest by Daniel Kunitz |
 | | Their substance lies in allusions to past artists, Still chief among them, and so, while their paintings look like his from a distance or in reproduction, in person, close up, they have none of the older artists depth and disturbing intensity. |
 | | Still said he learned as a youth the price one pays for a father, a master, a Yahweh, or his contemporary substituteAn Institutional Culture. As an adult, he fought his own idiosyncratic battle against the sort of institutional culture that might de-bone his art. |
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