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Expressing abstraction : writings on art for the Nation
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- Creator
- by S. Lane Faison, Jr. ; collected by Eugene J. Johnson, Michael J. Lewis
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- Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865)
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- English
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- Williamstown, Massachusetts : President and Trustees of Williams College, 2006
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- 95 pages : 2 illustrations ; 23 cm
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- ocn170972101, ocn282990082
- "Published in honor of the author's 99th birthday."
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