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When Art Withholds the Image, Absence Becomes the Subject

A tradition running from Robert Rauschenberg's White Paintings and John Cage's 4′33″ to Yves Klein, Doug Wheeler and the Rothko Chapel shows how postwar artists turned silence, emptiness and withdrawal into a way of redirecting attention toward the world around the work.

when art gives you nothing to look at, absence becomes the spectacle
When Art Withholds the Image, Absence Becomes the Subject
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A tradition running from Robert Rauschenberg's White Paintings and John Cage's 4′33″ to Yves Klein, Doug Wheeler and the Rothko Chapel shows how postwar artists turned silence, emptiness and withdrawal into a way of redirecting attention toward the world around the work.

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