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Labbe, Edmond – Exposition internationale des arts et des techniques, Paris 1937: rapport general. Tome 2, album annexe.
[Paris : Ministere du commerce et de lindustrie, [1941]
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It may be proposed that the context, or surrounding, of art is more potent, more meaningful, more demanding of an artist´s attention, than the art itself. Put differently, it´s not what the artist touches that counts most. It´s what he doesn´t touch.

Portrait of Salvador Dalí for LIFE magazine by Philippe Halsman in a »making of« version: this version has a wider crop than the published version, showing the assistant holding the chair, the prop that lifts the stool, and the piano wires used to hold the picture and the easel in place (in fact the frame on the easel is still empty). Wet spots from some of the many previous attempts (28 in total … that’s 84 thrown cats) can also be seen on the floor.

Mitch Corber, “Corber/Jolson goes to Harlem,” Performance, 1974

Emaciated Horse by Gong Kai – ink on paper handscroll, 29.9 x 56.9 cm. After Mongol Kublai Khan, leading the Yuan Dynasty, conquered the Southern Song Dynasty of China in 1279, Gong Kai remained a Song loyalist and refused to serve Kublai’s government. This painting of an emaciated horse represents his own poverty-stricken conditions that he imposed on himself since he refused to serve as a government official.