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Re: Peter Doig Feb-April, Tate Britain

From:     Clement Greenberg
Category: Art
Date:     04 March 2008
Time:     12:42 PM

Review:

I feel jonathan Polkest misses something fundamental when he talks of a "metaphorical -hyphen". 
Whatever this painter embodies, it is not metaphor. And as for the hyphen, surely empty whiteness 
between letters on a page is closer to the condition of a Doig, not punctuation. Doigs work is about 
painting itself and nothing more, Polkest is confusing literary and visual terms, as many writers do.Id 
suggest a clarifying dose of  Immanuel Kant , Polkest, and get off the M4- you're blocking the road.


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