Francis Alÿs: Ricochets
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“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.” –Gaston Bachelard When Phillipe Aries wrote ‘Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life’(1960) it developed a notion that the concept of childhood was a modern development dating as late as …