L GGW I L L I A M S RECENT REVIEWS AND ARTICLES ART ISSUES  (Review) ARTWEEK  (Letter to the Editor), September 9, 1996, San Jose,  California.

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READERS' FORUM D Off the Mark       Again, as predictable as it is forced, Mark Van Proyen's review missed the mark and the point (Book Review, "The Culture of Complaint:  The Fraying of America," AW, 8/5/96).  Robert Hughes, the "widely read," "entertaining," "stylish" and powerful phrase-turner" (four qualities that could never chacterize Mr. Van Proyen), certainly would not ever create a doomed-to-fail paper trail for dull and bored artists/critics.       However, Mr. Hughes reiterates the most unfashionable notion fo our generation, a becon so blinding, radical and challenging that is must go unnoticed, not only in Mr. Van Proyen's review, but by today's deservedly lonely, empty-headed, banner-hungry artists/critics:  strive to bring back (and then extend) individual, articulate and imaginative quality into art. DDDD BACK