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From fund-raising and owner loans to museum-artist relations to the immense effort involved in safely shipping sixty works from twenty-seven lenders in fourteen cities and five countries, this book illustrates the inner workings of one of Chicago's premier cultural institutions.

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"An important, lucid, and miraculously easy-reading contribution to the ethnography of art." (Sarah Thornton, author of Seven Days in the Art World)"

In Search of a Lost AvantGarde An Anthropologist

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 16/09/2014
      ISBN13: 9780226173818, 978-0226173818
      ISBN10: 022617381X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From fund-raising and owner loans to museum-artist relations to the immense effort involved in safely shipping sixty works from twenty-seven lenders in fourteen cities and five countries, this book illustrates the inner workings of one of Chicago's premier cultural institutions.

      Trade Review
      "An important, lucid, and miraculously easy-reading contribution to the ethnography of art." (Sarah Thornton, author of Seven Days in the Art World)"

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