I ART There is no single look to the art or common countenance to the sensibility of the artists who top [Vanity Fairs] list, each of whom can be viewed in a variety of ways. But there is a powerful shared preoccupation with, to put it as nakedly as possible, “I.” In a period whose presiding spiritual disease is narcissism, the artists we most admire play, seriously, with what we can know about who we think we are. Me, myself, and I—the modern trinity—has rarely seemed less fixed or certain. 1. RICHARD SERRA - an equally uneasy and provocative quality of I 2. CINDY SHERMAN - puts enormous and sophisticated pressure on our sense of the individual I 3. JASPER JOHNS - the burden of the past threatens entirely to overwhelm and smother the capital I vanityfair/culture/2013/12/greatest-living-artists-poll
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