![]() ![]() ![]() In a revivalist, remake-loving culture such as ours, there’s nothing easier than playing the citation game. ![]() Well, yes, but to remember the past, to really engage it, isn’t simply a question of recycling some old styles, of recuperating, say, Photo-Realism in the manner of Richard Phillips and the recent Jeff Koons, revamping Color Field painting à la Monique Prieto (who really needs to answer to the ghost of Ray Parker) or behaving like one of the countless architecture-obsessed young painters who are channeling the palette and styles of early ’70s graphic design. ![]() “Wait a moment,” some readers may cry, “isn’t there a lot of historically informed painting being made today? Aren’t artists doing all kinds of cultural archeology?” Forgetting the past, or keeping it safely quarantined or never having known it in the first place-much of what’s wrong with contemporary painting is, I think, the result of people and institutions adopting those attitudes. ![]()
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