Word: whitechapel
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Britain's view of its own abstract art is highly selfconscious, aware that Paris decades ago showed the way to abstractionism and that the U.S. went farthest with it. Or as Bryan Robertson, director of London's Whitechapel Gallery, puts it: "British painting is just part of the international style, and the only English thing about it is its limitation.'' His view of Lanyon. Vaughan. Frost and Kitchens: "Jolly dreary." But that is just one opinion, and Britain's art row bristles with contrary judgments...