Suzi Gablik obituary
<strong>Other lives</strong>: Artist and writer of influential books on the ecological and social function of art
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<strong>Other lives</strong>: Artist and writer of influential books on the ecological and social function of art
Suzi Gablik, an artist, author, and critic who penned the first English-language biography of René Magritte, died May 7 at the age of eighty-seven. In volumes that are still germane today, Gablik took on a diverse range of topics, including the commercialization of art, the relationship between art and the ecological and sociological spheres, and that between art and morality. Gablik firmly believed that artists could be agents of social change, and likewise believed that the term artist itself merited a broad definition. “I’ve always been trying to deconstruct the cultural narrative whic...
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