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8 | (8) |
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Venus of Hohle Fels (38,000-33,000bc) and Other Fertility Art |
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16 | (6) |
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Nebra Sky Disc (c. 1600bc) |
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22 | (4) |
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Colossal Heads of the Olmec (c.900bc) |
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26 | (4) |
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Tomb of the Diver (c.480bc) and Other Art Made to Be Buried |
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30 | (6) |
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Statue of Glycon, the False Snake Deity (late second century) |
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36 | (2) |
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Doom Paintings (twelfth-thirteenth centuries) |
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38 | (4) |
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Portrait of the Devil, Codex Gigas (early thirteenth century) |
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42 | (2) |
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Japanese Kusozu (thirteenth-nineteenth centuries) and the Art of Death |
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44 | (4) |
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Ripley Scroll (fourteenth century) |
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48 | (4) |
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Wound Man (fifteenth-seventeenth centuries) |
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52 | (4) |
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Arnolfini Portrait (1434), Jan van Eyck |
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56 | (4) |
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Crucifixion Diptych (tr. 1460) and the Tricky Art of Restoration |
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60 | (4) |
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Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro (c. 1473-5), Piero della Francesca |
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64 | (4) |
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The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490-1500), Hieronymus Bosch |
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68 | (4) |
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Unicorn Tapestries (1495-4505) |
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72 | (6) |
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Mona Vanna, the Nude Mona Lisa (c. 1510), Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno |
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78 | (4) |
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Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian I (1512-26), Hans Burgkmair the Elder and Others |
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82 | (6) |
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The Ugly Duchess (c. 1513), Quentin Matsys |
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88 | (4) |
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St Christopher Dog-head (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) |
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92 | (4) |
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Fool's Cap Map of the World (c. 1580-90) |
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96 | (2) |
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The Composite Art of Arcimboldo (1563-c\1590) |
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98 | (4) |
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Gabrielle d'Estrees and One of Her Sisters (c. 1594) |
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102 | (2) |
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The Legend of the Baker of Eeklo (c. 1550-1650), after Cornelis van Dalem |
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104 | (2) |
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Man Consumed by Flames (1600-10), Isaac Oliver |
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106 | (4) |
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Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes (1612-13) and the Art of Revenge |
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110 | (2) |
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Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) and the Art of Theft |
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112 | (3) |
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Tapuya Woman (1641) and the Art of Cannibalism |
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115 | (3) |
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Portrait of Barbara Van Bec\ (c. 1650) |
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118 | (6) |
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The Temptation of St Anthony (c. 1650), Joos van Craesbeeck |
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124 | (4) |
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Angeles Arcabuceros - The Art of the Angel Musketeer (seventeenth century) |
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128 | (4) |
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Central African Minkjsi Power Figures (seventeenth-twentieth centuries) |
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132 | (2) |
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Competition on the Ponte dei Pugni in Venice (1673), Joseph Heintz the Younger |
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134 | (4) |
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Typus Religionis (c. 1700) and the Art of Blasphemy |
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138 | (4) |
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Lucifer's New Row-Barge (c. 1722) and the Art of Satire |
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142 | (2) |
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Joseph of Cupertino Takes Flight (eighteenth century), Ludovico Mazzanti |
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144 | (4) |
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The Imaginary Prisons of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1750) |
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148 | (6) |
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The Ghost Heads of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1770-83) |
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154 | (4) |
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Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare (1781) and the Art of Dreaming |
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158 | (3) |
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Mr Barker's Monster Panoramas (1789) |
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161 | (3) |
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Interior of a Kitchen (1815), Martin Drolling |
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164 | (4) |
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Francisco Goya's Black Pointings (1819-23) |
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168 | (4) |
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Hikeshi-banten (nineteenth century) and the Art of Fighting Fire |
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172 | (4) |
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The Coronation of lnes de Castro in 1361 (c. 1849), Pierre Charles Comte |
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176 | (2) |
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The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (1855-64), Richard Dadd |
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178 | (2) |
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Portrait of Madame X (1884), John Singer Sargent |
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180 | (4) |
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Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV (1880-91), Ilya Repin |
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184 | (3) |
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The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema |
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187 | (2) |
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Bream in 25 Feet of Water Off the West Coast of Scotland (1910), Zarh Pritchard |
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189 | (3) |
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Fate of the Animals (1913), Franz Marc |
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192 | (2) |
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Raoul Hausmann's The Art Critic (1919-20)and the Art of Dada |
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194 | (4) |
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Georgiana Houghton and Spiritualist Art (nineteenth-twentieth centuries) |
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198 | (6) |
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The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalf and Surrealist Art |
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204 | (6) |
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The Wounded Deer (1946), Frida Kahlo |
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210 | (2) |
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The Eternity of Arthur Stace (1932-67) |
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212 | (2) |
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James Hampton's The Throne of the Third Heaven (c. 1950-64) and Other Outsider Art |
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214 | (6) |
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Merda d'Artista (1961), Piero Manzoni |
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220 | (4) |
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Mondo Cane Shroud (1961), Yves Klein |
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224 | (4) |
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The Art of Pierre Brassau (1964) |
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228 | (4) |
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The Getty Kouros (twentieth century) and Other Fakes and Forgeries |
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232 | (4) |
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Marina Abramovic and Performance Art |
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236 | (4) |
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Portrait ofEdmond de Belamy (2018) and Other Art by Artificial Intelligence |
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240 | (4) |
| Select Bibliography |
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244 | (2) |
| Index |
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246 | (8) |
| Picture Credits |
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254 | (1) |
| Acknowledgements |
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