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Gilded Age

Arts & Life
William McGregor Paxton’s “The Crystal” depicts the artist’s wife cradling a luminous crystal ball. The absence of the subject’s reflection in the mirror could indicate the portrait is not meant to be a faithful rendering of the subject or the scene, but rather a means for capturing a mood or advertising wealth. (Photo: VANI MOHINDRA/The Stanford Daily)

Gilded Age art at Cantor provokes viewers to rethink stereotypes about the era

Vani Mohindra
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Sept. 3, 2019
The Ambersons spend much of their time sequestered in their magnificent mansion (courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and The Criterion Collection.)

Orson Welles documents a family’s dizzying decline in ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
  •  
Jan. 17, 2019
The Stanford Daily

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