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Book Cover for: If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present, T. J. Clark

If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present

T. J. Clark
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T. J. Clark’s impressions of Cézanne out of time: IF THESE APPLES SHOULD FALL: CÉZANNE AND THE PRESENT. BY T. J. CLARK. Thames & Hudson, 2022. 240 pages.  THE MOST PUZZLING THING about T. J. Clark’s new book is its title. If These Apples Should https://t.co/VFvFPIivyZ

Hardcover, 2022

$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Affinities: On Art and Fascination, Brian Dillon

Affinities: On Art and Fascination

Brian Dillon
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On Brian Dillon’s Affinities: Affinities: On Art and Fascination. By Brian Dillon. New York Review of Books, 2023. 320 pages. IN THE EARLY WEEKS of the pandemic, I became obsessed with maps of New York City. Cloistered in my https://t.co/aEayiQPEFN

Paperback, 2023

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Tempest, Aimé Césaire

A Tempest

Aimé Césaire
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“The Voices of a Tempest”: Among the achievements of Une tempête (1969), Aimé Césaire’s transposition of Shakespeare’s late romance onto the imaginative landscape of 1960s anticolonialism, is its sensitivity to how language and https://t.co/ygFh18Vdh5

Paperback, 2002

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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