"It is the texture, the atmosphere, the ideals, the notions of 'camp' which currently determines middle-class taste, directs its signs, and seems to nourish its simple-minded eagerness to grind the idea of 'alienation' into yet another hopelessly ironic cliche"

A new exhibition of the artist's facsimiles at Gavin Brown gives viewers something to think about.

All great paintings have a corporeal presence, an ineffable element that is leached out of Lichtenstein's work by his ponderous formalism