Studio note
Datec. 1966–76
Current owner
Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Archives
Credit Line© Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
RD numberRDFA.216
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Transcription:
As a work progresses its power to dictate and elicit [arrows below to switch these two words] response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest [strikethrough] but before [/strikethrough] which [strikethrough] is [/strikethrough] just [strikethrough] before [/strikethrough] precedes the point where “elicit” is no longer [strikethrough] an [/strikethrough] apt [strikethrough] word [/strikethrough] usage. “Dictate” [strikethrough] covers [/strikethrough] is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.
As a work progresses its power to dictate and elicit [arrows below to switch these two words] response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest [strikethrough] but before [/strikethrough] which [strikethrough] is [/strikethrough] just [strikethrough] before [/strikethrough] precedes the point where “elicit” is no longer [strikethrough] an [/strikethrough] apt [strikethrough] word [/strikethrough] usage. “Dictate” [strikethrough] covers [/strikethrough] is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.
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c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76
c. 1966–76