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if noble attempt to suppress a whole universe of legitimate any major artist of our time. What he has written could
pictorial ingredients in order to take other valid aspects to hardly provide a more cogent or more humane and
their furthest limits. It is the sort of operation which . . .
conclusively demonstrates a cul-de-sac.* * I must apologize to Mr Patrick Heron for lifting out of context words
written eighteen years ago in a passage containing judgements he
Gabo has written more, and more profoundly, about
says he has since modified. But even if the arguments are no longer his,
the relation between his beliefs and his art than almost the words express a point of view still commonly enough heard.