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- ↑ Elizabeth Sears, "American Iconography: Assessing FSA Photographs, 1945", Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, Volume 30, Issue 3, 2014, pp. 239-254.
- ↑ "A Symposium on Erwin Panofsky", The Burlington Magazine, Volume 134, No. 1073 (1992), pp. 547-48.
- ↑ Dictionary of Art Historians: Janson, H(orst) W(oldemar).
- ↑ Thomas Roeske, "Traces of Psychology: The Art Historical Writings of Ernst Kris", American Imago, Vol. 58, No. 1 (2001), pp. 463-477.
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