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Farber's famous essay 'White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art' appeared in the Winter 1962 issue of Film Culture, although it was based in Farber's observations about painting. White elephant art, explains Farber, is defined by 'yawning production of overripe technique shrieking with

On "White Elephant Art v. Termite Art" (Manny Farber, 1962) I don't know how Warhol's works could even be made-into termite art, or if it ever existed as such except as works-in-progress. Signs of white elephant art. action framed with all-over pattern (again, against The term, which Farber gave life to in a Film Culture article published in 1962 entitled "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," is a metonym for unpretentious art, or as Molesworth explains in the catalog, art that "recoils from master narratives and big statements[and] valorizes the Farber's famous essay 'White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art' appeared in the Winter 1962 issue of Film Culture, although it was based in Farber's observations about painting. White elephant art, explains Farber, is defined by 'yawning production of overripe technique shrieking with preciosity, fame, ambition.' These terms were elaborated in "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," which appeared, as later critics such as Manohla Dargis have noted, in a remarkable issue of Film Culture that also contained Andrew Sarris's "Notes on the Auteur Theory" and Pauline Kael's review of Shoot the Piano Player. "There are two types of art," says Los Angeles-based artist Megan Whitmarsh, referencing critic Manny Farber's 1962 essay, "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art." According to Farber, the Let me refer you to Manny Farber's famous essay, "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," which appeared in 1962 in Film Culture. In that essay, Farber -- who was a very good painter who wrote film Manny Farber and Termite Art. October 14, 2018-March 11, 2019 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles www.moca.org. This exhibition was inspired by American pain