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A major achievement of Ashbery's is the way he suffuses his essays, even the most journeyman of them, with his own aesthetic. But this aesthetic is not easy to formulate, if only for the reason that, as any reader of Ashbery's most famous poem, 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror' will know, for him the essence of art lies in the dialectic between the work of art as it objectively is and the spectator.Ashbery, John is the author of 'Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles, 1957-1987' with ISBN 9780674762251 and ISBN 0674762258.
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