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"The trope—the violin as heaven's instrument of choice—has been a cultural perennial since Monteverdi" (David Schoenbaum, The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument, 2013). Our illustration is from Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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