So far, I have not had too many responses to my survey of the greatest artists of the century, but a few interesting returns are already in. Uneasy though I remain about the whole exercise, here is my list once again: Beuys, Brancusi, Duchamp, Kandinsky, Malevich, Matisse, Mondrian, Picasso, Rodin, Turrell, and Warhol. Arnd Schneider offered five names only: Beuys, Duchamp, Ernst, Matisse, and Picasso. My mother surprised me with her list, which is predictably biased toward the first half of the century: Dalí, De Chirico, Kandinsky, Malevich, Matisse, Picasso, and Rodin. Neil Manson’s list contains more contemporary artists than any other I have received to date: Beuys, Braque, Karlo, Koons, Matisse, Magritte, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Viola, and Warhol. Bob Collén shares my unease, but he still offers a list: Braque, Brancusi, Hopper, Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse, Picasso, Rodin, and Rothko. Danielle Arnaud wrote back that she looked forward to making up her list, but I have not yet received it from her. Jacques van Alphen refused to participate in this exercise. There are no such things as the greatest artists of this or any other century, he argues. The very question implies an unhealthy division between winners and losers. I agree, I agree, and yet…