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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
Walter Darby Bannard
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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
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W. Darby Bannard
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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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