Society degree zero: Christ, communism, and the madness of crowds in the art of James Ensor

Representations

Volumn 75, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-32

  Jonsson, Stefan ^a  

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DOI: 10.1525/rep.2001.75.1.1     Document Type: Review

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