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"title": "Year in Review for 1986",
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"title": "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"title": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"description": "CMA, February 4 - March 15, 1987: \"Year in Review 1986,\" CMA Bulletin, 74 (February 1987), p. 65, no. 76.",
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"description": "MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): \"The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art\", no. 69, p. 119.",
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"description": "Active during the 1920s and 1930s, Jarom\u00edr Funke was one of Czechoslovakia's most important photographers. During the late 1920s, Funke used panes and spheres of glass, bottles, and other objects to create striking abstract compositions and still lifes that emphasized reflected light and cast shadows.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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