It is, after all, their critiques which usually control the flow of the fashion. ... The purity of flatness essentially came down to a style in which lines, forms, colors, and contours all are merged eloquently in such a unification with the flatness of the canvas that it is art, as pure as art can be. ... Pre-Modern art was not pure because it was an illusion the viewer could imagine walking into, and thus the flatness of the canvas plane was betrayed. ... (Wolfe 78) The work of Jasper Johns is what Steinberg referred to as being pure simply because he used objects that were flat be their...

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