Art Chowder September | October 2016, Issue 5 | Page 43

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uthor Tom Wolfe begins his amusing, controversial, but more or less factually accurate book The Painted Word by recounting an “Aha!” moment that overcame
him one day while reading the morning paper. In the Sunday New York Times Art
critic Hilton Kramer reviewed a 1974 exhibition called “Seven Realists,” which included these words: “Re