# The Perpetual Guest

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- Authors: [Barry Schwabsky](https://www.bookquiver.com/barry-schwabsky)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-17-8478-323-5
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2016-04-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Leading art critic explores the connections between art’s past and present Contemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with history. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry...