“The Liberating Quality of Avant-Garde Art” - Timothy R. Quigley

Modern Art: Basic Assumptions, Definitions, and QualificationsJustification“It is obvious that each art has possibilities given in its ownmedium which are not found in other arts, at least not in thesame degree. Of course, we do not know how far-reachingthese possibilities are; the limits of an art cannot be set inadvance. Only in the course of work and especially in the workof venturesome personalities do we discover the range of anart, and even then in a very incomplete way.” [Schapiro, 1]Philip Guston, Zone, 1953-54Tuesday, February 7, 2012