"Aware of no thing but art."
Gilbert, Lax, Edson, Niedecker, Kunitz, Reinhardt
Jack Gilbert:
Robert Lax:
Russell Edson:
Lorine Niedecker:
"Just a few minutes ago rather spontaneous from a folk conversation and I suppose some of my own dark forebodings. We shd. be true to our subconscious? Sorry it is another I poem. My god, I must try to get away from that "-- Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman, July 20, 1967
Stanley Kunitz:
Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, 1963, oil on canvas, 60" x 60":
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.... a pure, abstract, non-objective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relationless, disinterested painting—an object that is self-conscious (no unconsciousness), ideal, transcendent, aware of no thing but art.
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