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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

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Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
Historian
Journalist
Social Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
Make
Largely
Mirror
Mirrors
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Modern
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Consumerism

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