Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
5930
AUTHOR:
Calvin Tomkins
QUOTATION:
Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visual reproduction…. You are likely to find yourself scaling craggy massifs of prose…. hacking a path through thickets of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Baudelaire and Marx.
ATTRIBUTION:
On the “changing topography of coffee-table art books,” New Yorker 11 Feb 85
SUBJECTS:
Communications & the Arts: Art: Observers & Critics
