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What Rises from the Ruins: Katherine Anne Porter on the Power of the Artist and the Function of Art in Human Life
What Rises from the Ruins: Katherine Anne Porter on the Power of the Artist and the Function of Art in Human Life

“We understand very little of what is happening to us at any given moment.”

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Bunny & Tree: A Tender Wordless Parable of Friendship and the Improbable Saviors That Make Life Livable
Bunny & Tree: A Tender Wordless Parable of Friendship and the Improbable Saviors That Make Life Livable

Traversing the landscape of life on the wings of trust.

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How the Octopus Came to Earth: Stunning 19th-Century French Chromolithographs of Cephalopods
How the Octopus Came to Earth: Stunning 19th-Century French Chromolithographs of Cephalopods

The art-science that captured the wonder of some of “the most brilliant productions of Nature.”

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Stunning Century-Old Illustrations of Tibetan Fairy Tales from the Artist Who Created Bambi
Stunning Century-Old Illustrations of Tibetan Fairy Tales from the Artist Who Created Bambi

Soulful art from stories that speak “to the childhood of all times and all races.”

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The Stunning Mystical Paintings of the 16th-Century Portuguese Artist Francisco de Holanda
The Stunning Mystical Paintings of the 16th-Century Portuguese Artist Francisco de Holanda

Blake before Blake, Hilma before Hilma.

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