Visual Encounters
Africa, Oceania, and Modern Art
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‘Visual Encounters’ is full with colour illustrations throughout, in cardboard folder box. The catalogue to a major exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler. With contributions by Raymond Ammann, Michaela Appel, Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, Adriaan and Huib Blom, Marc Coulibaly, Antje Denner, Stefan Eisenhofer, Till Forster, Bernhard Gardi, Bernard de Grunne, Ingrid Heermann, Anita Herle, Christian Kaufmann, Ulrich Menter, Catherine and Michel Orliac, Christine Stelzig, Hilke Thode-Arora, Alexandra Wessel and Oliver Wick.
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