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Painter of Sight

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.27.2004 3:24 AM

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New at Reason: Who's that guy squinting at the canvas? Why it's landscape wiz J.M.W. Turner! Charles Paul Freund explores the controversy over understanding art through biology.

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