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Óscar Monzón

n 1956, Alison and Peter Smithson, then enfants terribles on the British architecture scene, penned a treatise for magazine celebrating the popular art of advertising and effectively collapsing distinctions between lowly and venerated forms of cultural production: “For us it would be the objects on the beaches, the piece of paper blowing

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