| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| NUMBER: | 5930 |
| AUTHOR: | Calvin Tomkins |
| QUOTATION: | Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction…. You are likely to find yourself scaling craggy massifs of prose…. hacking a path through thickets of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Baudelaire and Marx. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On the “changing topography of coffee-table art books,” New Yorker 11 Feb 85 |
| SUBJECTS: | Communications & the Arts: Art: Observers & Critics |
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