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The impact of the volume's splendid engravings of Athens's ancient ruins on contemporary aesthetics was heightened—particularly in the much-expanded edition of 1770—by its two highly provocative theoretical essays

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Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular Holiday 2023 The cleaning of a workEdited by Andrew Perchuk and Rani Singh Filmmaker, musicologist, painter, ethnographer, graphic designer, mystic, and collector of string figures and other patterns, Harry Smith (19231991) was among the most original creative forces in postwar American art and culture, yet his life and work remain poorly understood. Today he is remembered primarily for his Anthology of American Folk Music (1952)an idiosyncratic collection of early recordings that