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[ noun ] unrelatedness by virtue of falling outside the matter at hand

Used in print

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

By its greater corporeal presence and its greater extraneousness , the affixed paper or cloth serves for a seeming moment to push everything else into a more vivid idea of depth than the simulated printing or simulated textures had ever done .

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unrelatedness

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