Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 26
“No original Gauguins were to be seen in Australia, for post-impressionism was officially thought to be the vulgar effusion of five-thumbed lunatics.”
Source: Donald Friend (1965), p. 24
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