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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Art and Science
Book SynopsisFeaturing the work of artists such as Damien Hirst, Christine Borland, Bill Viola and Helen Chadwick, and art-science collaborative ventures involving Dorothy Cross, Eduardo Kac and Stelarc, it looks at the way new scientific explanations for the nature of human consciousness can influence our interpretation of art, at the.
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National Gallery Company Ltd The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the
Book SynopsisQuinten Massys’ An Old Woman (‘The Ugly Duchess’) is one of the Renaissance’s most famous faces. In a fresh review of the iconic image, this book unveils the painting’s original context: its status as a pioneering work of satirical art, its debt to Leonardo da Vinci’s grotesque drawings, and what it tells us about the period’s complex attitudes towards women, age and normative beauty. The painting and its partner, An Old Man, are parodic portraits that mock the supposed lust and vanity of older women. Yet a closer look also reveals a figure defiantly flouting conventions and a painter subverting artistic expectations. The publication traces the eventful afterlife and enduring power of this seminal image: how she gained her nickname ‘The Ugly Duchess’ and inspired John Tenniel’s much-loved illustrations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), capturing the imagination of generations of readers. Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule:National Gallery, London, 16 March–11 June 2023
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Crescent Moon Publishing Kurt Jackson:
Book SynopsisKURT JACKSONBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonA new book about the British landscape painter Kurt Jackson (b. 1961). This new edition includes a text which has been completely updated. There are also many new illustrations. including photographs taken for this new edition. EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 4: One of Kurt Jackson''s appealing concepts is that the ocean is one of the last true wildernesses left on the planet. It''s an idea that I found very interesting when he explained it to me when we first met in St Just. I took it that he meant a spiritual as well as an ecological or natural wilderness. Jackson''s art can thus be seen as an art that is the border region between humanity and nature, between culture and nature, as well as literally tackling that area - the coast - which is neither land nor sea. <Note that Kurt Jackson is always facing outwards from the land, and looking towards the ocean, not painting with his back to the sea, and looking towards the land (and notice that the many boats and helicopters and such in this area are left out of the paintings, too). So Kurt Jackson''s Porth series, about Priest Cove, and all of his sea paintings, are very important in his art in articulating this idea of the ocean as the last wilderness. ''Have you ever wondered what''s out there?'' is a question that Jackson asks (it''s the title of one of his major paintings, too - the centrepiece of the Porth series). Kurt Jackson has repeated the question over a number of related works: the title of two 2004 pieces is The Last Wilderness In Western Europe? This was painted on Jura (in Scotland), and both pictures are consciously emptied of human marks - just empty moorland and a delicate blue sky. An earlier picture, part of the Cape series, was entitled Do You Ever Wonder What''s Out There? (1999) - an unusual composition in the Jackson oeuvre which puts the horizon very high, and focusses on the dark blue ocean ?ecked with white spray. Kurt Jackson isn''t that interested in many of the connotations of the ocean - the moon, time, goddesses, rebirth (though moons do appear in his art from time to time). He''s not really interested in religious or pagan or magical symbols in that way. And he''s not that interested in shipping, fishing, and all things maritime, like J.M.W. Turner was. REVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONSFully illustrated, with a revised text. Bibliography and notes. Hardcover. Also available in hardback. www.crmoon.comREVIEWS ON AMAZON:A well- written and thoughtful book. Quite academic and appropriate really for careful reading. REVIEW ON AMAZON:Very pleased with all aspects of my purchase: the book itself - so useful to gain such insight into an artist''s life and inspirations. Also, prompt delivery, well packaged and arrived in good condition.
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Dent-De-Leone Every Colour by Itself - 2nd Edition, 2nd Size
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Dent-De-Leone November
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Song of the Wild Swan Ltd Forcible Love
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Ex Libris Press THE OTHER JERSEY BOYS: Lifeguards, laughter,
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Unicorn Publishing Group The Healing Arts: The Arts Project at Chelsea and
Book SynopsisChelsea and Westminster Hospital and its charity CW+ have been pioneers in the Arts and Health field for over 25 years. By bringing music, performance and the visual arts into the hospital, they have created an extraordinary environment and transformed the experience of countless patients, visitors and members of staff . In this collection of essays, we delve into the story of the arts at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, from the installation of daring sculpture before the hospital opened its doors, to the exciting future of the programme. The Healing Arts discusses the impact of the arts on patients’ recovery, in some cases shortening their stay or reducing their need for pain medication. From drawing to music to creative digital technology, this volume looks at how integrating the arts into the day-to-day life of the hospital has changed its patients’ experience of care.
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Tricorn Books Buskers and Dogs: 2020
Book SynopsisI have always found buskers a ready source ofmaterial to illustrate and in this book, after years ofobservation, I have collected together the diverseand often amusing characters I have come across.
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Fillip Supplement 3 The Invention and Conclusion of the
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New Mexico Magazine 2024 Enchanting New Mexico Calendar: Images from
Book SynopsisEach month you'll be treated to award-winning images selected by the editors of New Mexico Magazine for its annual contest.
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Pinyon Publishing How Still the Riddle
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Inventory Press LLC Midnight: The Tempest Essays
Book SynopsisMidnight: The Tempest Essays, the second book in Molly Nesbit’s Pre-Occupations series, returns the question of pragmatism to the everyday critical practice of the art historian working in the late 20th century. These essays take their cues from the work of specific artists and writers, beginning in the late 1960s, a time when critical commentary found itself in a political and philosophical crisis. Illustrated case studies on Eugène Atget, Marcel Duchamp, Jean-Luc Godard, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Rachel Whiteread, Gabriel Orozco, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Nancy Spero, Rem Koolhaas, Martha Rosler, Gerhard Richter, Matthew Barney and Richard Serra, among others, continue the legacy of a pragmatism that has endured while debates over postmodernism and French philosophy raged.Trade ReviewNesbit has found a way to combine her expertise as an art historian with her interest in experimental modes of display. -- Daniel Birnbaum * Artforum *Nesbit schools the inattentive to keep alert for what is not there… -- Bruce Hainley * Artforum *Nesbit’s approach can feel scientific and a bit free-associative at the same time. ..she combine[s] the spirit of natural-history research — turning over rocks in search of clues — with that of poetry... -- Edward M. Gómez * Hyperallergic *
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Kinfolk Kinfolk Volume 56
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TBW Books Man Unraveling
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Tidalwave Productions Female Force: Kamala Harris Hard Cover Edition
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Elena Pankey Календа&
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Clover Press The Marvel Art of Michael Allred
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Three Rooms Press Maintenant 19 A Journal of Contemporary Dada
Book SynopsisThe Maintenant series, established in 2008, explores themes of politics, humanity, philosophy, and current concerns from an antiwar, anarchic (and often eye-opening) perspective. Past issues include work by artists Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, Joel Hubaut, Heide Hatry, Avelino de Araujo, Pawel Kuczynski, Inas Al-Soqi, Giovanni Fontana, Nicole Eisenmann, Syporca Whandal, and Kazunori Murakami; past writers have included Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Andrei Codrescu, Harry E. Northup, Malik Crumpler, Maw Shein Win, and more, with a strong contingent of artist-writers from the world of punk rock, including Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Bibbe Hanson and more.
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Tidalwave Productions Milestones of Art: Frida Kahlo: Viva Mexico
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Hachette Livre - BNF L'Art de Mettre Sa Cravate de Toutes Les Manières
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Hachette Livre - BNF Les Grotesques de la Musique (Éd.1859)
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Hachette Livre - BNF Le Paysage Au Salon de 1857
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Hachette Livre - BNF Le Salon de 1857: Beaux-Arts
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Hachette Livre - BNF Le Théâtre Français Sous Louis XIV (3e Édition)
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Hachette Livre - BNF Les Fortifications Du Cte de Pagan. Avec Des
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Hachette Livre - BNF Les Merveilles de la Céramique. Tome III.
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Hachette Livre - BNF Les Mosaïques Byzantines Portatives
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Hachette Livre - BNF Les Plus Beaux Édifices de Rome Moderne, Ou
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Hachette Livre - BNF Liste Du Tirage Général de la Loterie Fait En
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Hachette Livre - BNF Manuels-Roret. Nouveau Manuel Complet Du Bronzage
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Hachette Livre - BNF Masques Et Visages (Éd.1886)
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Hachette Livre - BNF Salon de 1850-51
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Hachette Livre - BNF Salon de 1853
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Hachette Livre - BNF Salon de 1851, (Éd.1851)
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Hachette Livre - BNF Exposition Du Siècle
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Hachette Livre - BNF La Bijouterie Française Au Xixe Siècle 1800-1900.
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Hachette Livre - BNF La Sculpture Dans Les Cimetières de Paris, Le
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Jean Boite editions de l’amour
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Shelter Press SPECTERS
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Visual Dictionary of Photography
Book SynopsisThe Visual Dictionary of Photography provides clear definitions of key terms and concepts, backed up by hundreds of illustrative examples. Covering practical terms, it deals with the terminology of both digital and traditional photography. David Präkel has produced an invaluable resource for anyone interested in photography, lens-based media and related visual arts. This book serves not only to explain terms and words but also acts as a source of inspiration, encouraging exploration through understanding.Over 250 terms are explained and contextualised, with concise definitions accompanied by illustrations and examples taken from historical and contemporary photography.The dictionary covers analogue terms still in current usage as well as modern digital terminology such as Raw format and High dynamic range. It also defines a wide variety of practical terms, including ISO speed, Backlighting and Noise, as well as conceptual terms and photographic styles, ranging from Photojournalism to Distortion.Trade Review"The book is well laid out - easy to understand and nice to hold. I like how the author has included other pages to look at that are relevant to what you have just read. - Jill Enfield, Parsons The New School of Design, USA A very useful tool for teaching and learning, provides quick reference for students and helps them to learn essential terms relating to Photography. - Jesse Lyons, Warwickshire College, UK Excellent pocket guide to photographic terms & concepts. Wonderful for beginners through advanced students. - Alex Donis, Brentwood School, USA A perfect text to dip in and out of, essential for deeper understanding of terminology for the beginner. - Amelia Edwards, Cardiff & Vale College, UK"Table of ContentsA to Z listing
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Emmanuel Duclos Conseil The ABC of SPC
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture
Book SynopsisThe essays in Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture contribute pioneering and revelatory insights into the phenomenon of invisibility, forging new and multi-disciplinary approaches at the intersection of aesthetics, technology, representation and politics. Importantly, they acknowledge the complex interaction between invisibility and its opposite, visibility, arguing that the one cannot be fully grasped without the other. Considering these entanglements across different media forms, the chapters reveal that the invisible affects many cultural domains, from digital communication and operative images to the activism of social movements, as well as to identity, race, gender and class issues. Whether the subject is comic books, photographic provocations, biometric and brainwave sensing technologies, letters, or a cinematic diary, the analyses in this book engage critically and theoretically with the topic of invisibility and thus represent the first scholarly study to identify its importance for the field of visual culture.Table of Contents1. Invisibility Matters, Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind Vågnes.- 2. Invisible Empire: Learning to Look Askew in the Art of Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen, Henrik Gustafsson.- 3. Literary Device: Invisible Light and a Photo of Photography, Ari Laskin.- 4. Tomas van Houtryve's Packing Heat and the Culture of Surveillance, Øyvind Vågnes.- 5. Neurointerfaces, Mental Imagery and Sensory Translation in Art and Science in the Digital Age, Ksenia Fedorova.- 6. Invisibility and the Ethics of Erasure: Khaled Barakeh’s The Untitled Images, Asbjørn Grønstad.- 7. Neither Visible nor Hidden: The Structuring of the Sensible, Maria-Carolina Cambre.- 8. Reading the Invisible in Marjane Satrapi’s Embroideries, Jena Habegger-Conti.- 9. Hearing and Seeing the In/visible: Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary, Anjo-mari Gouws.- 10. Power in Partial Visibility: Reframing Positions on 19th & Early 20th Century Photography, Lucy L. Bowditch.- 11. Materiality of the Invisible in David Wilson’s “California Letters”, Lene Johannessen.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and
Book SynopsisResearching and writing about contemporary art and artists present unique challenges for scholars, students, professional critics and creative practitioners alike. This collection of essays from across the arts disciplines—music, literature, dance, theatre and the visual arts—explores the challenges and complexities raised by engaging in researching and writing on living or recently deceased subjects and their output. Different sections explore critical perspectives and case studies in relation to innovative, distinctive or otherwise leading work, as well as offering innovative modes of discourse such as a visual essay and a music composition. Subjects addressed include recent scandals of Canadian literary celebrity, late-career output, the written element of music composition PhDs, and the boundaries between ethnography and hagiography, with case studies ranging from Howard Barker to Adrian Piper to Sylvie Guillem and Misty Copeland.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction.- 1. Writing About Contemporary Creative Art and Artists.- Christopher Wiley and Ian Pace.- PART I: Critical Perspectives.- 2. The Artist is Present: Scandal and the Academic Study of the Living Artist.- Lorraine York.- 3. From vocational calling to career construction: Late-career authors and critical self-reflection.- Hywel Dix.- 4. An Introduction to the Persistence of Art Writing.- Bob Dickinson.- 5. The purpose of the written element in composition PhDs.- Christopher Leedham and Martin Scheuregger.- 6. Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Western Art Music: Questions of Context, Realism, Evidence, Description and Analysis.- Ian Pace.- 7. When Ethnography becomes Hagiography: Uncritical Musical Perspectives.- Ian Pace.- PART II: Case Studies Across the Arts.- 8. Writing Catastrophe: Howard Barker and the Body.- Andy W. Smith.- 9. Writing the Ballerina: Sylvie Guillem, Misty Copeland and Lessons in Biography.- Jill Brown.- 10. Amend the Arena: On Adrian Piper’s Work.- Vered Engelhard.- 11. Memory and Irony in The Apollonian Clockwork.- Joel M. Baldwin.- 12. Artfrom: Researching the canon through publications of art and design.- Mimi Cabell and Phoebe Stubbs.- PART III: Art Considered on its Own Terms.- 13. Occlusionary Tactics (visual essay).-‘Bob’ Whalley.-14. Abstracts (music composition, 2015).- Richard Birchall.- 15. MusicArt: Creating Dialogues Across the Arts.- Annie Yim, in conversation with Christopher Wiley.
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Springer International Publishing AG Art and Neurological Disorders: Illuminating the
Book SynopsisThere is significant academic interest in the field of art and neurological disorders. Considering how artistic expression may be modified by alterations in neural circuits, as well as in our bodies and everyday lives, associated with a range of disorders and diseases is a rich territory from which to understand the workings of our brains, the unique blend of factors leading to human art making, and disease itself. This book will be an exposé of how different neurological disorders may influence and/or relate to the artistic process, with a particular focus on visual art and painting. The book will interrogate the question of different aspects of neurological disorders and associated brain changes that may impact artistic expression (and vice versa) and will include devoted chapters on Parkinson’s disease, Epilepsy, Mood Disorders, Autism, and Schizophrenia. Moreover, we will elaborate on the question from the perspective of the artist themselves, with chapters that highlight the artistic process in the context of lived experience (either directly or indirectly) with disease-mediated brain changes. Finally, engagement in creative acts has been linked to therapeutic benefits in multiple disease processes and neuroplasticity, which is another line of inquiry directly addressed in the book. As a whole, the volume focuses on themes and concepts at the boundary of creativity and neuroscience in such a way as to be relevant to both the medical and broader (artistic) community. Table of ContentsChaptersHistory of Neurological Disorders and creative expression Suggested authors: Andrew Bulloch, University of Calgary (bulloch@ucalgary.ca) Frank Stahnisch, University of Calgary (fwstahni@ucalgary.ca) Dopamine pathways, dopaminergic medications, and creativity Suggested authors: Matthew Pelowski, University of Vienna, (matthew.pelowski@univie.ac.at) Parkinson’s Disease Suggested authors: Anjan Chatterjee, UPenn (anjan@mail.med.upenn.edu) Eugénie Lhommée, Grenoble (elhommee@chu-grenoble.fr) Mood disorders (MDD, Anxiety, BPD) Suggested authors: Natalia Jaworska, Royal Ottawa Hospital (natalia.jaworska@theroyal.ca) Georg Northoff, University of Ottawa (georg.northoff@theroyal.ca) Schizophrenia Suggested authors: Christoph Redies, Jena Germany, (christoph.redies@med.uni-jena.de) Alzheimers & Frontotemporal Dementia Suggested authors: Bruce Miller, UCSF, (Bruce.Miller@ucsf.edu) William Seely, UCSF, (wseeley@memory.ucsf.edu) Stroke Suggested authors: Julien Bogousslavsky, Clinic Valmont Switzerland (jbogousslavsky@cliniquevalmont.ch) Migraine Suggested authors: Liam Durcan, McGill University, (liam.durcan@mcgill.ca) Neurodevelopmental disorders Suggested authors: Michael Shevell, McGill University, (michael.shevell@mcgill.ca) Epilepsy Suggested authors: Steven C. Shacter, Harvard University, (sschact@bidmc.harvard.edu)
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Birkhauser The Painter Le Corbusier: Eileen Gray's Villa E
Book SynopsisIn 1929, Eileen Gray designed Villa E 1027 for herself and her youthful partner Jean Badovici, but only lived there for three years. Today, the elegant house in Roquebrune-Cap-Mar- tin in southern France is an icon of modernism. In 1937, Le Corbusier discovered the place and the “Maison en Bord de Mer”. Inspired by the genius of the place and the light on the Côte d'Azur, he created a total of eight large-format wall paintings there in 1938 and 1939 onwards, some of which complement the building congenially, while others set counterpoints. In 1952, he built his Cabanon nearby and decorated it with murals as well. The book by the well-known architectural historian Tim Benton documents Le Corbusier's artwork at this special place, explores its controversies, and places it in his overall oeuvre. The fascinating photographs by Manuel Bougot capture the special atmosphere of the villa Le Corbusier's painting is lesser known but was formative for his lifelong preoccupation with polychromy After extensive renovation work until 2021, E 1027, as well as the Cabanon, is open to the public again
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Diaphanes AG Non–Construction – An Architectural Gesture in
Book SynopsisBy defining a concept of architecture based on the tactile experience and not on construction, this book allows us to explore both discursive practice as the study of architectural art and the integration of architectural art as a discourse of spatial practice. In order to take on this new lens, Non-Construction utilizes a cinematographic documentary image strategy that engages with a critical spatial exploration of current entanglements of art and research at the crossroads of art, theory, and architecture. A challenge to visual conventions, this book offers conceptual and aesthetic insights into spiraling and voiding sensual experiences, with implications for the decolonization of the documentary and cinematographic reaching far beyond architecture.
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Diaphanes AG How to Teach Art?
Book SynopsisA cooperative reflection on how to teach art. How should art be taught? What kind of knowledge should artists absorb? How might an ordinary person become a creature addicted to the creative process? In other words, how can a non-artist become an artist? Such programmatic questions articulated by acclaimed Polish artist Artur Żmijewski were at the heart of the workshop “How to Teach Art?” Żmijewski invited a group of graduate and doctoral students from three Zurich universities—the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts—to collectively reflect on their artistic practices. Over the course of four months, the group met several times a week for hourlong sessions, following individual and collective exercises induced by Żmijewski himself. This book retraces the workshop and its process by showing inconclusive, fragmentary results between theory and practice. How to Teach Art? presents drawings, videos, photographs, 16mm films, and accompanying reflections on the central premise, “How to teach art?”
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