Word: medicean
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...with the English Pop movement; but his work had very little to do with Pop. Its real ancestry was Surrealist-the exegesis of dreams through collage and montage, the impaction of seemingly unrelated images. And its preferred terrain was recent. Let other Americans in Europe have their fantasies about Medicean Florence or the court of the Sun King; Kitaj had edgy, bad dreams of the comparatively recent past, a 20th century that began in 1914 and was populated by history-buffeted cosmopolitans, Jews on the run, unmoored intellectuals...