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[] What has the idea of a collective avant-garde become a matter of such sensitive importance?
[] What makes artists turn so readily to public statements of private positions?
[] How have the elementary strategies of shock and irresponsibility become such elaborate intellectual games?
Below: a portrait of Hess painted by Elaine de Kooning in 1956.
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** Saturday Review of Lit,. March 1, 1952, p. 53.