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"Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical."
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"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."
"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."
"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."
"A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence."
"Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art ."
"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy."
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