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Article: Furniture: Abstract and fancy-free Art
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- International Herald Tribune
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- January 10, 2006
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Roberta Smith
International Herald Tribune
01-10-2006
In the late 1950s, the art critic Clement Greenberg coined the term ''homeless representation'' to dismiss the recognizable images in the largely abstract work of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. You wonder what he would have called the various painted motifs and patterns that flutter across the tables, chairs, cabinets and blanket chests in ''Surface Attraction,'' running through March 26 at the American Folk Art Museum. Nomadic abstraction? Philandering formalism? This delectable convention-stretching exhibition of more than 30 pieces of painted furniture from the museum's collection reminds us that painting can be very ...
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