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Martín Ramírez

by Brooke Davis Anderson

An interdisciplinary study of twentieth-century self-taught artist Martin Ramirez, analysing the biographical, historical, and cultural influences on his complex drawings and collages beyond his psychiatric diagnosis.

Accession 12337 ISBN 9780977802814 Publisher Marquand, American Folk Art Museum
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