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Huancara 5 – National Museum / American Indian / DC 4 Aug 07
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Art Nouveau, 1890-1914 $75.00 Art Nouveau exploded onto the art and design scene in the early 1890s and spread rapidly throughout the Western world. This lush volume-created to accompany a major museum exhibition that opened at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, before moving to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in October 2000-is the most beautiful, complete, and wide-ranging study ever published on this enorm… |
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The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing The Promise $18.55 Nearly a century’s worth of Scurlock photographs combine to form a searing portrait of black Washington in all its guisesâits challenges and its victories, its dignity and its determination. Beginning in the early twentieth century and continuing into the 1990s, Addison Scurlock, followed by his sons, Robert and George, used their cameras to document and celebrate a community unique in the wo… |
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On Miniature Wings: Model Aircraft of the National Air and Space Museum $18.94 Providing a brief introduction to the world of model aeroplanes, Thomas J. Dietz then goes on to present a selection of model aircraft from the National Air and Space Museum, at the Smithsonian Institute. Fourteen years before the Wright brothers’ famous 1903 flight, Samuel P. Langley, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, acquired a model of John Stringfellow’s triplane and began the mus… |
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