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QUOTE OF THE MONTH

"The slogan 'painting is dead' . .  meant that it was no longer necessary
to separate oneself [as an artist] from the people through the acquisition
of skills and sensibilities rooted in craft-guild exclusivity and secrecy
. . "

Jeff Wall, "'Marks of Indifference': Aspects of Photography in, or as,
Conceptual Art" (in Ann Goldstein and Anne Rorimer, eds, <I>Reconsidering
the Object of Art</I>, MIT Press, 1995, p. 263)