penultimate decades of DeAk's life were plague with poor health heavy drug use. At the age of 68, DeAk died of pneumonia and acute respiratory stress syndrome-related complications in New York City. Works and publications – Art Random, no. 15 – Exhibition from February 28, 1984 to April 1, 1984 See also Art-Rite References Further reading External links Edit DeAk at Printed Matter, Inc 1948 births 2017 deaths Hungarian emigrants to the United States American art critics Deaths from pneumonia in New York City