A letter calculated to manipulate public opinion in
a disingenuous way.
It's certainly
a disingenuous way for painters, especially those who have been painting as long as Richter, to position their practice not as painting per se, but as a more fashionably conceptual undertaking.
So you can actually do yourself more harm than good if you put money into something in
a disingenuous way, or at least if that's the way the consumer sees it.