That was something of a cheap shot against the painters of his day,
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WRONG.
Tom Wolfe was writing about the critics who controlled the art world.
You have never read his book.
Hmm ... an attack on Greenberg, Rosenberg, and Steinberg?
If I remembered the book that way, I wouldn't even have brought it up.
You have never read his book.
The book came out forty years ago.
Be grateful somebody remembered it at all.