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Cover: Top left, Jackson Pollock, Number 8, 1949. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. Gift of Roy R. Neuberger. Photographer: Jim Frank. Bottom right, View of the Earth from the Command Module Columbia. Photograph courtesy of NASA.
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