work of art

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What makes “Picnic” an enduring work of art is its tonal complexity.

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The daring title essay is a denunciation of what she viewed as the modern practice of substituting our own meanings for those contained in works of art, an act that “tames” those works.

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“Dreamworld” and “Man Ray” remind us that the best works of art, Surrealist or not, are as elusive as our dreams.

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Important works of art from Bohemian lands were destroyed by iconoclasts during the Hussite Wars of the 15th century, and much was taken as booty during the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th.

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Each week a writer focuses on a single work of art—we use the term in its broadest sense—and explains why, in his or her view, it is of surpassing cultural significance.

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