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The success of failure

by Joel Fisher

This publication is the catalogue of a travelling exhibition organised by Independent Curators Incorporated. It toured US venues, including the Laumeier Sculpture Park, Middlebury College, and the University of Arizona Museum of Art, between 1987 and 1988.

Accession 20183 ISBN 0916365204 Publisher Independent Curators International
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Catalogue for an exhibition exploring the notion of failure in art. --LH

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