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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Appreciating Art | |
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| What Is Art? | |
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| Toward a Definition of Art | |
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| Levels of art | |
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| The constant in art | |
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| How to Recognize Good Art | |
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| How to Appreciate Art Without an Advanced Degree | |
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| The Key to Being a Connoisseur | |
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| Distinguishing the good from the bad | |
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| Examining the real thing | |
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| Keeping your eye in tune | |
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| How to Visit a Museum the Way the Pros Do | |
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| Doing What the Pros Do | |
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| Get a postcard | |
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| Make a "wish list" | |
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| Look at what you don't like | |
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| Become a member of the museum | |
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| Listen to some music | |
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| Dress code | |
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| A final plea | |
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| Art through the Ages | |
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| Prehistoric Art (More Sophisticated Than You Would Believe) | |
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| Prehistoric Cave Art | |
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| Altamira | |
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| Lascaux | |
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| Chauvet | |
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| Art Leaves the Caves | |
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| The Ancient World: Still the Most Exciting | |
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| The Ancient Near East | |
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| Mesopotamia (Iraq) | |
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| Anatolia (Turkey) | |
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| Persia (Iran) | |
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| Egypt, the True Grandmother of the Fine Arts | |
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| The character of Egyptian art | |
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| Where to see Egyptian art | |
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| The best of Egyptian art | |
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| The Glory That Was Greece | |
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| Portraying the figure | |
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| The Temple of Apollo at Olympia | |
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| More figures from the 5th century | |
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| The Hellenistic period | |
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| The Art of Rome | |
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| Etruscan influences | |
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| Discovering Roman art | |
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| Pompeii and Herculaneum | |
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| Roman silverworking | |
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| Christian influences | |
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| Medieval Art (Definitely Not the Dark Ages) | |
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| Early Christian Art | |
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| The early Christian "look" | |
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| The rise of the mosaic as a medium | |
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| The early Christian style in Rome | |
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| The apogee of early Christian art | |
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| The "Dark Ages" | |
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| The Lindisfarne Gospels | |
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| The Book of Kells | |
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| The decline of the "Dark Ages" | |
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| The Romanesque | |
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| Gislebertus | |
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| Master Hugo | |
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| Pinpointing the greatest Romanesque works | |
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| The Gothic | |
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| The International Style | |
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| Byzantine Art | |
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| Macedonian Renaissance | |
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| Late Byzantine Art | |
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| The Renaissance and Revivals | |
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| Renascences | |
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| The Italian Proto-Renaissance | |
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| Italian Early Renaissance | |
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| Brunelleschi | |
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| Masaccio | |
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| Donatello | |
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| Ghiberti | |
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| Piero della Francesca | |
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| Alberti | |
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| Andrea Mantegna | |
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| Sandro Botticelli | |
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| Italian High Renaissance | |
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| Leonardo da Vinci | |
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| Raphael | |
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| Andrea Palladio | |
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| Giorgione | |
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| Titian | |
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| Correggio | |
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| Michelangelo | |
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| The Northern European "Renaissance" | |
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| The Grandeur of the Northern Renaissance | |
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| Robert Campin | |
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| Jan van Eyck | |
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| Rogier van der Weyden | |
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| Hugo van der Goes | |
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| Hieronymus Bosch | |
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| Pieter Breughel the Elder | |
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| Hans Holbein the Younger | |
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| Matthias Grunewald | |
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| Albrecht Durer | |
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| Northern Sculpture | |
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| Viet Stoss | |
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| Tilman Riemenschneider | |
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| Mannerism: Sensuality and the Bizarre | |
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| The Real and the Invented Mannerism | |
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| Jacopo da Pontormo | |
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| Rosso Fiorentino | |
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| Bronzino | |
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| Parmigianino | |
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| Veronese and Tintoretto | |
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| French Mannerism | |
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| El Greco | |
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| The Baroque: The True Golden Age | |
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| The Birth of Baroque | |
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| Caravaggio | |
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| Georges de la Tour | |
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| The Caravaggesque Style Elsewhere | |
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| The Flourishing of the Baroque | |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini | |
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| Peter Paul Rubens | |
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| Jan Vermeer | |
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| Rembrandt van Rijn | |
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| Baroque Tendencies in France | |
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| Pierre Puget | |
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| Nicholas Poussin | |
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| The Best of the 17th Century: Diego Velazquez | |
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| The Sparkling 18th Century | |
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| France and the Rococo Style | |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau | |
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| Francois Boucher | |
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| Jean-Honore Fragonard | |
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| Painters of the middle class | |
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| French sculpture | |
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| French decorative art | |
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| Germany and the Rococo | |
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| The Impact of Italy | |
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| Piazzetta and Tiepolo | |
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| Caneletto, Guardi, and Belotto | |
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| English Contributions | |
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| William Hogarth | |
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| Thomas Gainsborough | |
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| English decorative arts | |
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| The Emergence of America | |
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| The End of the Rococo | |
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| Neoclassicism and the Romantic Twinge | |
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| Neoclassicism | |
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| Jacques-Louis David | |
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| The reach of Neoclassicism | |
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| Antonio Canova | |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | |
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| Romanticism | |
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| William Blake | |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner | |
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| Caspar David Friedrich | |
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| Eugene Delacroix | |
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| Theodore Gericault | |
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| Francisco Goya | |
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| Impressionism (The Poetry of the Land and Mankind) | |
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| The Roots of Impressionism | |
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| Creative forebears | |
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| Seminal thoughts | |
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| Political influences | |
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| The advent of photography | |
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| The impact of science | |
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| The art establishment falls | |
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| The Key Role of Edouard Manet | |
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| Claude Monet | |
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| The Impressionist "Style" | |
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| Post-Impressionism (Or Better, Pre-Modern) | |
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| Painting after the Impressionists | |
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| Georges Seurat | |
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| Paul Gauguin | |
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| Vincent van Gogh | |
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| Paul Cezanne | |
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| Modern Art: The Bold, the Beautiful, and the Not-So-Beautiful | |
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| Pablo Picasso | |
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| ISMs and Other Styles | |
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| Fauvism | |
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| Die Brucke ("The Bridge") | |
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| Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider") | |
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| Futurism | |
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| Constructivism | |
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| Suprematism | |
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| Dadaism | |
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| Surrealism | |
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| The Bauhaus | |
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| Sezession (Secession) | |
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| Is Modern Art Something of a Joke? | |
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| Contemporary Art and Its "ISMs" (Not Always So Nice, but Ever Exciting) | |
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| The Lowdown on Contemporary Art | |
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| Abstract Expressionism | |
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| Color Field Painting | |
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| Pop Art | |
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| Abstract Illusionism | |
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| Art Brut | |
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| Body Art | |
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| Minimalism | |
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| Conceptual Art | |
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| Earthworks | |
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| Hairy Whoism and Chicago Imagism | |
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| "True" Art | |
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| Neurotic Realism | |
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| Transavantgardism | |
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| Installation Art | |
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| A Look at Art Beyond the Western World | |
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| China | |
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| The essence of Chinese art | |
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| Taipei treasures | |
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| Japan | |
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| Unbreakable traditions | |
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| India and Southeast Asia | |
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| Islamic Art -- Only God Remains | |
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| Beginnings -- Early Caliphs and the Umayyads (633-750) | |
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| Fatimids (909-1171) | |
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| Seljuq art (1037-1300) | |
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| Moorish Spain (719-1492) | |
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| Mamluk art (1250-1517) | |
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| Ottoman art (1299-1893) | |
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| Safavid art (1502-1736) | |
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| Mughal art (1525-1857) | |
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| Africa, Oceania, and the Americas | |
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| Africa | |
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| Oceania | |
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| The Americas | |
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| Beginning Your Own Collection | |
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| Getting Ready to Collect | |
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| Getting Set to Collect | |
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| Record your first impression | |
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| Describe the item in writing | |
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| Determine the condition | |
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| Figure out how the work was used | |
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| Determine the style | |
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| Find out where a piece came from | |
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| Consult an expert | |
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| Run some tests | |
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| Compare your first impression with what you have found out | |
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| The Don'ts of Collecting Art | |
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| How to Play the Buying Game | |
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| The Many Faces of Forgeries | |
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| Where to Go to Buy | |
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| Knowing What to Ask | |
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| Understanding Dealer-Speak | |
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| Taking Your Chances at an Auction | |
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| What to Collect and What to Avoid | |
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| What to Look Into or Avoid | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| The Greatest Works of Western Civilization | |
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| King Tut's Golden Mask | |
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| The Sculptures of the Parthenon | |
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| The Scythian Gold Pectoral | |
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| Nicholas of Verdun's Enameled Altar | |
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| Giotto's Arena Chapel | |
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| The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck | |
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| Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" | |
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| Michelangelo's "David" | |
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| The Isenheim Altarpiece by Mathias Grunewald | |
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| El Greco's "Burial of Count Orgaz" | |
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| Diego Velazquez's "Las Meninas" | |
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| Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son" | |
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| Francisco Goya's "The Third of May, 1808" | |
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| Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party" | |
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| Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" | |
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| The Ten Most Interesting Artists (And Why) | |
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| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) | |
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| Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) | |
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| Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) | |
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| Francisco Goya (1746-1828) | |
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| Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) | |
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| Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610) | |
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| Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) | |
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| Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) | |
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| Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) | |
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| Lysippus (Flourished 4th century B.C.) | |
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| Ten Artists Worth Watching | |
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| Mark di Suvero (b. 1933) | |
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| Gary Simmons (b. 1964) | |
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| Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928) | |
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| Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917) | |
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| Frank Stella (b. 1936) | |
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| Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) | |
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| Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) | |
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| Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) | |
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| Jenny Saville (b. 1970) | |
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| Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) | |
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| How to Tell if Your Child Has Artistic Genius and Then What to Do | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Artspeak Unmasked | |
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| The Professional's Checklist on How to Buy Art | |
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| Art Chronology | |
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| The Essential Guide to the World's Top Art Cities and Centers | |
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| The Awesome Americas | |
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| United States | |
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| Arizona | |
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| Arkansas | |
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| California | |
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| Los Angeles Area | |
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| San Diego Area | |
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| San Francisco Area | |
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| Colorado | |
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| Connecticut | |
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| District of Columbia | |
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| Washington, D.C. | |
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| Illinois | |
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| Chicago | |
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| Indiana | |
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| Maryland | |
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| Baltimore | |
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| Massachusetts | |
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| Boston area | |
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| Michigan | |
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| Minnesota | |
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| Missouri | |
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| Kansas City | |
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| Saint Louis | |
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| New York | |
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| Buffalo | |
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| Corning | |
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| New York | |
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| North Carolina | |
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| Ohio | |
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| Cleveland | |
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| Oberlin | |
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| Toledo | |
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| Oklahoma | |
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| Pennsylvania | |
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| Philadelphia | |
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| Texas | |
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| Austin | |
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| Dallas | |
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| Fort Worth | |
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| Houston | |
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| Virginia | |
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| Wyoming | |
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| Canada | |
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| Montreal | |
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| Ottawa | |
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| Toronto | |
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| Vancouver | |
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| Latin America | |
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| Brazil | |
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| Mexico | |
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| Peru | |
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| Venezuela | |
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| Europe (All That's Worth a Detour) | |
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| Austria | |
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| Vienna | |
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| France | |
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| Paris | |
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| Germany | |
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| Berlin | |
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| Cologne (Koln) | |
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| Dresden | |
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| Munich | |
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| Greece | |
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| Athens | |
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| Ireland | |
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| Dublin | |
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| Italy | |
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| Florence | |
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| Rome | |
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| Venice | |
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| Netherlands, The | |
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| Amsterdam | |
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| The Hague | |
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| Russia | |
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| Moscow | |
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| St. Petersburg | |
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| Spain | |
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| Barcelona | |
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| Bilbao | |
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| Madrid | |
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| Switzerland | |
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| Basel (Switzerland) | |
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| Zurich | |
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| United Kingdom | |
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| London | |
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| Non-Western Destinations | |
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| Egypt | |
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| Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara | |
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| The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, and the Giza Plateau | |
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| Cairo | |
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| Luxor | |
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| Aswan | |
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| Israel | |
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| Jerusalem | |
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| Turkey | |
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| Istanbul | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Book Registration Information | |