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Pleasurable Fear: Géricault and Uncanny Trends at the Opening of the Nineteenth Century

✍ Scribed by Stefan Germer


Book ID
108520491
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
473 KB
Volume
22
Category
Article
ISSN
0141-6790

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