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List of Figures Permissions Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION : The Museum as Muse CHAPTER 1: Charisma and Critique: Interrogating Aesthetic Liminality in Museum-Sponsored Anthologies CHAPTER 2: Returned Again to the Exhibition: John Ashbery, Avant-Gardism, and Ekphrastic Risk CHAPTER 3: Daring to Wink: The Museum Comedies of Kenneth Koch and Richard Howard CHAPTER 4: Someone (A Woman) Watching: Site-Specific Ekphrasis by Three Feminist Innovators Epilogue Works Cited