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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

As Robert Smithson wrote in a press release for a 1967 exhibition of language-based art (which he famously described as consisting of “Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read”) at the Dwan Gallery in New York: “Here language is built up, not written.” exhibition view), 2019. Chloë Bass, How much of love is attention?

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