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Barbara Kasten Reading 4.1212: What Can Be Shown, Cannot Be Said by Arthur Ou — VisualArtsDB

Barbara Kasten Reading 4.1212: What Can Be Shown, Cannot Be Said

Barbara Kasten Reading 4.1212: What Can Be Shown, Cannot Be Said

2016

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 22.3 × 17.6 cm (8 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Paper: 25 × 20.2 cm (9 7/8 × 8 in.)
Genre: photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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