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The Infinite Belonged to Everyone: Remembering Peter Max and the Public Life of Wonder

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Peter Max did not merely give the 20th century more color; he altered the emotional weather of looking. Across a nation convulsed by war, protest and spiritual hunger, he released suns, sages, lovers and celestial bodies into public life until wonder no longer seemed privately held. It could be carried home, pinned above a…

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