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Written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, this is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl from Philadelphia who discovers she can pass for white.
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Sheltering Art
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Pages: 392
Authors: Rochelle Ziskin
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Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Julie Anne Plax
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-08-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Inventing the Louvre
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Andrew McClellan
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-10-26 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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A narrative history of the founding of the Louvre that also explores the ideological underpinnings, pedagogical aims, and aesthetic criteria of this, the first