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Brower, R. (2005). The Role of Social Comparison in the Artistic Development of Vincent van Gogh. In: Wallace, D.B. (eds) Education, Arts, and Morality. Path in Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48671-7_4
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