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The Interpenetration of Art and Life

December 12, 2017 Larry Barnett
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The Peace Tower created in 1966 in Los Angeles, the collaboration of over 300 artists opposed to an escalation of the Vietnam war, is the lead subject of Kurt's article from April, 1966 in Art International magazine. "When art is removed from the irrelevant sanctity of the gilt frame, the anaes­thetic atmosphere of the academy, or the marble muse­um's hallowed halls of death, and is set down in the middle of life, it is inevitably more vulnerable to destruc­tion than are all the visual atrocities found so tolerable by the vulgar," states Kurt, and he goes on to explore "the interpenetration of Art and Life."

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In Art History, Art Criticism, Art Int'l Mag.
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