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How Pictures Complete Us: The Beautiful, The Sublime, And The Divine

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Item Length: 9in

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Author: Paul Crowther

Publication Name: How Pictures Complete US : the Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Publication Year: 2016

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 10 Oz

Number of Pages: 192 Pages

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