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The play of the unmentionable : an installation by Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum
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The play of the unmentionable : an installation by Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum

by Joseph Kosuth, David Freedberg

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Accession 2557 ISBN — Publisher New Press, Brooklyn Museum
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