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integrated modernist art which could speak critically about the world.” The “missing term,” he
writes, was “the absent revolutionary teleology.” Wall, “Kammerspiel,” reprinted in part VIII of
this volume.
37. Kosuth, “Introductory Note to Art-Language by the American Editor,” p. 39. This sense of a
self-sustaining art subculture was reasserted in 1990 during a panel discussion when an audience
member commented that “one of the dominant features of conceptual art was that the
public felt more cut off from art than it had before” and Lawrence Weiner interrupted another
panelist to respond “We are the public.” Judith Mastai, ed., “Evening Forum: Terry Atkinson,
Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Lawrence Weiner, moderated by Willard Holmes” (Vancouver: Vancouver
Art Gallery, 1990), p. 10.
38. Harrison, “Art Object and Artwork,” p. 61.