Theodore Bale Books

The Year'S Work In The Oddball Archive

By Judith Roof, Beth A. McCoy, Grant Farred, Dennis Allen, Timothy Sweet, Robin Blyn, Charles M. Tung, Joseph Campana, Jonathan P. Eburne, Aaron Jaffe, Atia Sattar, Seth Morton, Judith Roof (Eds.), Theodore Bale

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The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of th...

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