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ISBN: 978-1-911046-39-4 ISSN: 0032 2156 Cover: Cornelia Parker, Inside, Outside, 2018
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© Cornelia Parker, image courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
Cover quote by Victoria Chang, from Obit (see pp.67–73)
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