"When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time."

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Dan Graham

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Dan Graham is a conceptual artist known for his innovative installations that explore the relationship between viewer and artwork, particularly through architecture.

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"Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world."

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