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Panoptikum

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Panoptikum 

the Russian word for a collection or exhibition of various unusual and unique objects, wax representations of human figures, and outlandish and bizarre living creatures. In a figurative (ironic) sense, it is a disorderly collection of sundry objects.



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Next to Panoptikum is Raven's Flight, which can be described as a witches' shop, and a mile or so away in Burbank is Dark Delicacies (``The House of Horror'').
Valentin's Panoptikum Valentin understood that consigning the comic object to the venues usual to the display of self-conscious imaginative objects--the art gallery, the art museum--would cause them to be interpreted as art.
 
 
 
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