«On both occasions, I was shocked to see the
extreme levels of
squalor and poor habitation in the area, caused largely by rogue landlords neglecting their duties and exploiting tenants.»
On the Greenberg side, Frank Stella — whose 1959 painting Marriage of Reason and
Squalor, a stark black canvas broken by his characteristic thin white strips of unpainted canvas is included in «Action / Abstraction» — took Greenberg's formal purity to the
extreme.