Letter: The Turner needs more than slick quotations in rice
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Gordon Burn cannot have it both ways. The achievement of Duchamp's 'ready-mades' was to point out that anything can be considered aesthetically: what is required is a perceptual shift.
If the Turner Prize entrants were indeed his heirs, they would not even begin to consider aligning themselves with such a trite continuation of the 19th-century salon.
Yours sincerely,
PETER HARRISON
London, N8
10 November
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