If, as Sontag says, "interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art" then Wilson is surely art's revenge upon the intellect (Sontag, 7). Monstrously tall Abe Lincoln is clearly meant just to be that, it would be a futile effort to try to interpret what that image may mean. Even more futile to try and produce a secondary cohesive text interpreting any of Wilson's shows in the way one can say, for instance, that interpretation made A Streetcar Named Desire "about the decline of Western Civilization" (Sontag, 9)

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