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Article: Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Other Costly Commodities.
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- National Review
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- February 7, 1994
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Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Other Costly Commodities, by james Gardner (Birch Lane, 227 pp., $19.95)
CIVILIZATION is often indicated in unexpected ways: those black-and-white photographs of the streets of New York at the depth of the Great Depression with all the men wearing hats; the way that a French shopkeeper insists on the obligatory bon jour before entering into a transaction. The lack of anything remotely resembling civilization or certainly high civilization is strikingly evident in the images described by James Gardner, art critic for NR, in his fascinating book Culture or Trash? For those who ...