All of that "instant saturation" (art into pop culture) led to Op being considered a dated joke very quickly, such that Bleckner and Halley could make careers on it being a failed movement twenty years later and Roberta Smith could use the phrase "anti-Op New York" in a review attempting to resuscitate Bridget Riley thirty years later.
I still haven't seen the De Palma film. I watched the first part of the Mike Wallace piece on YouTube and stopped because I was cringing too much.
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I still haven't seen the De Palma film. I watched the first part of the Mike Wallace piece on YouTube and stopped because I was cringing too much.
- tom moody 8-30-2010 1:14 pm