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Contemporary Art: The Generative Role of Play

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

James Johnson Sweeney
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AllOfUs who have considered the problem of enjoying contemporary art are aware that the most serious barriers to it are the reluctance on the part of many painters and sculptors to put aside the notion that a work of art must mirror the physical world about us and their unwillingness to accept the fact that all true art must go “through the looking glass” — that is beyond the mirror.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1959 , pp. 389 - 401
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1959

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