A disposable culture
will, in time, be disposed. The built-in temporary
nature of American urban environments continues to insure perpetual decline
marking a cultural sensibility devoid of conscience or concern. The murals of
the Lower East Side represent, in their way, a desperate and deeply human attempt
to come to terms with an urban policy and urban reality that defines and rejects
human consideration. The efforts of the artists are all the more brave in that
they are doomed. Gregory Battcock
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PHILIP POCOCK The Obvious Illusion: Murals from the Lower East Side, George Braziller Inc. New York 1980