Alloway, Lawrence
Problems of iconography and style
1980
How Picasso tried to reclaim 'Guernica' for the museum despite its obvious publicness and Greenberg's criticism that the work is wrecked by its concession to public rhetoric; 'Broken Obelisk' in Houston dedicated by its owner to M.L.King with Newman's consent; if meaning is so volatile what is being commemorated--- the artist? ref. to p.a. as an invasion from outer space; three problems affecting p.a.
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