He was well schooled in art history and kept rapt attention on the art world his entire life, but insisted on perching on the periphery, where, like some avant-garde meta-journalist, he could process gossip, consumer ads, and other information into coded objects, cryptic images, and doodles rendered with the suppleness of cartoons (which he loved) and graffiti art (which he anticipated)—without causing a fuss.
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