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An elegiac and luminous cut-up, \u003ci\u003eDusty Pink\u003c\/i\u003e brings together race wire results, editions of \u003ci\u003eFrance-Soir\u003c\/i\u003e, the lyrics to well-known British songs, scripts from famous old films, pharmaceutical leaflets, fashion ads, and strips and scraps of culture in which the avant-garde and academicism blur in an overview of the cultural scene. This world of atmospheres, portraits, and dazzling associations of ideas creates a plane of shimmering surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished in French in 1972, Jean-Jacques Schuhl's \u003ci\u003eDusty Pink\u003c\/i\u003e became a cult classic. 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