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In 1966, Michael Fried declared Frank Stella’s recent paintings to be “the most radically illusive and irreducibly ambiguous in the history of modernism.” To celebrate the life and work of Frank Stella, who died on May 4 at the age of eighty-seven, Artforum revisits Fried’s assessment of the artist’s innovative paintings in the magazine’s November 1966 issue—the first to feature Stella’s work on the cover. —The editors