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Double vision: the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil
Double vision: the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil
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Middleton, William
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First edition
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English
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Art
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography
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9780375415432
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From the Book - First edition
Part one. The museum imagined
Fanfare
Part two. The old world
A family château
A protestant dynasty
Return to France
Foreign affairs
Honor and sacrifice
Monsieur le Baron
At first sight
Une jeunesse
Horizons broadened
A shared life
Engaged
Part three. War
Drôle de guerre
The debacle
Landings
Postwar
Part four. New frontiers
Home
Nail hit this time
The sky is the limit
A big splash
Worth the candle
Nothing and everything
Faith can be alive
Part five. A very strong woman
Aftermath
What now?
Other voices, other lands
Toward a new museum
Global visions
A museum with walls
From civil rights to human rights
Byzantium
A new generation
Un acte final
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