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The Jean-Lurçat Museum and Contemporary Tapestry in Angers, France.

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Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine

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Inspired by the Apocalypse Tapestry in the ³¦³óâ³Ù±ð²¹³Ü, Jean Lurçat (1892–1966) began his epic tapestry masterpiece, Le Chant du Monde (Song of the World; 1957–61), just 12 years after the slaughter of WWII; scenes depict everything from the delights of Champagne to space exploration to nuclear holocaust. A quintessentially mid-20th-century meditation on the human condition, it is exuberant but contemplative, and only guardedly optimistic. The museum also exhibits a changing kaleidoscope of extraordinarily beautiful 20th-century and 21st-century tapestries.

Situated 1.2km north of the ³¦³óâ³Ù±ð²¹³Ü, on the opposite bank of the Maine.


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