Art in a classless society & viceversa : a study of cultural eccentricities operating within the confines of Antipodean normalcy, copiously illustrated with the masterpieces of avant gard, centre gard and derrier gard artists, along with a text that is not only astonishingly profound, but also surprisingly readable, from the hand of the celebrated author / Donald Friend

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