Stephen R. C. Hicks is the introduction to the Newberry Manifesto

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talks about Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Vermeer as establishing icons within the very beginning of art and form, them moves through to the middle of the nineteenth century talking about naturalism and the rise of philosophical theories of skepticism and irrationalism then moves on to the twentieth century so define artists such as Pollock, Picasso, Munch and Hopper as the end of modernism and rules the artical off with Marcel Duchamp and his autographed urinal.