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From the poet Sappho, who in the sixth century BC was the first to use the lyric to write subjectively and explore the range of female experience, to the Chinese polymath Pan Chao (Ban Zhao), who flourished around AD 100 as historian, poet, astronomer, mathematician and educationalist, the range is startling.
Not that Lee offers any startling new gossip.
The physicality of words is something we tend to lose sight of--literally--although the consequences of physicality are inescapable and often startling.
Originally a Roman settlement, Estepona preserves the remains of Moorish fortifications and watchtowers, an 18th-century parish church, and an expressionistic bullring, a startling piece of modern architecture which is beginning to look rather worse for wear.
Printed in bold letters at the entrance of the show is a startling claim by Degas' fellow painter Auguste Renoir: "If Degas had died at 50, he would have been remembered as an excellent painter, no more; it is after his 50 th year that his work broadened out and that he really becomes Degas."