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[ noun ] a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

Through 1911 and 1912 , as the Cubist facet-plane 's tendency to adhere to the literal surface became harder and harder to deny , the task of keeping the surface at arm's_length fell all the more to eye-undeceiving contrivances .

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distance

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