Article: Al Held.(Robert Miller Gallery, New York)

ROBERT MILLER GALLERY, NEW YORK

What is the exact latitude and longitude of Al Held's historical position? Aesthetic cartographers have placed him all over the map. He seems eternally suspended between generations, schools, movements. Location in art-historical terms depends, of course, on the fixed points from which you take your bearings. If you ignore the coordinates and fix on Held alone, you encounter a figure of such intense conviction that you have to take a step backward.

Ever since Picasso made Cezanne's anxiety an indispensable form of self-harassment, any serious artist without it seems to be missing an essential piece of equipment. But Held ...

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