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| Georg Baselitz Fingermalerei - Birken 1972 oil on canvas Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany |
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| Ely Bielutin Untitled 1972 oil on canvas Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina |
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| Ilya Bolotowsky Red Rectangle 1972 acrylic on canvas NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| William Christenberry Cannon's Grocery 1972 C-print Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee |
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| Joseph Cornell Untitled (Derby Hat) 1972 paper collage with photogravure McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Jay DeFeo Untitled 1972 gelatin silver print Menil Collection, Houston |
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| Equipo Realidad (art collective) Home Sweet Home 1972 oil on canvas Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain |
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| Richard Estes Oriental Cuisine 1972 screenprint Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine |
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| Lee Friedlander Chrysanthemums at Flower Market, Paris 1972 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Elisabeth Frink The Pardoner's Tale (illustration to The Canterbury Tales) 1972 etching and aquatint Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia |
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| Sam Gilliam Cordial I 1972 oil on canvas NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Nan Goldin Christmas at The Other Side, Boston 1972 gelatin silver print Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| Jörg Immendorff Pose These Questions to the Artists - Insist on Answers! 1972 distemper on canvas Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany |
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| Alfred Jensen The Ten Thousand Things 1972 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Roy Lichtenstein Still Life with Pitcher 1972 oil on canvas Seattle Art Museum |
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| Frank Lobdell Untitled (series, Dance) 1972 oil on paper San Jose Museum of Art, California |
The History of Science
All fables of adventure stress
The need for courtesy and kindness:
Without the Helpers none can win
The flaxen-haired Princess.
They look the ones in need of aid,
Yet, thanks to them, the gentle-hearted
Third Brother beds the woken Queen,
While seniors who made
Cantankerous replies to crones
And dogs who begged to share their rations,
Must expiate their pride as daws
Or wind-swept bachelor stones.
Few of a sequel, though, have heard:
Uneasy pedagogues have censored
All written reference to a brother
Younger than the Third.
Soft-spoken as New Moon this Fourth,
A Sun of gifts to all he met with,
But when advised "Go South for a while!",
Smiled "Thank You!" and turned North,
Trusting some map in his own head,
So never reached the goal intended
(His map, of course, was out) but blundered
On a wonderful instead,
A tower not circular but square,
A treasure not of gold but silver:
He kissed a shorter Sleeper's hand
And stroked her raven hair.
Dare sound Authority confess
That one can err his way to riches,
Win glory by mistake, his dear
Through sheer wrong-headedness?
– W.H. Auden (1955)