... figure sticks out in terms of influence. This was Philip Guston, his work redefined the terms of painting for a whole generation of Americans. The settlement of northeastern America in the seventeenth century was done by iconoclasts. To them the word was law and the image just a delusion, except in family portraits. The idea that virtue may lie in the breaking of idols ... ...

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