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t least since Pop—but, really, going back as far as Pablo Picasso’s 1912 newspaper-clipping collages and Gerald Murphy’s 1920s paintings of product packaging—high art and advertising have been circling each other slowly, sometimes falling into a rash embrace. By the 1980s, the writer and editor

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