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| Title | The shock of the new |
| Author | Robert Hughes |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 8, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0394513789, 9780394513782 |
| Length | 423 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / History / General Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) |
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