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- <title>
- Feb. 12, 1990: But Is It Art?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 12, 1990 Scaling Down Defense
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 45
- But Is It Art?
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- <body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> Judging a phone book by its cover has become a popular
- pastime among residents of the British city of Bradford. The
- phone company asked David Hockney, a native son who now lives
- in Los Angeles, to paint his hometown and the greeny Yorkshire
- countryside for its directory. Hockney, whose works can sell
- for more than $2 million, did it for free. Though orders for
- the directory are pouring in--one Londoner bought 500 copies--many Bradfordians are less than appreciative of the art.
- Among their epithets: "childish" and "monstrous."
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- </body>
- </article>
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