HomeNews & Events2019October Book Launch: Florine...
On Saturday, October 19, as part of MSA Toronto 2019, we proudly launched our new book, Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism. This book is number 1 of Book*Hug’s new Salon series, and the publisher, Jay Millar, was present as were many of the contributors and international MSA participants. We look forward to your engagement of the book.
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