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摘要

It Was always going to be a big year for things Scottish: 2014 marks the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, when the Scots beat the English in the first war of independence. It is also the year in which the Scots will take on the world, or at least 52 parts of it, at the Commonwealth games in Glasgow. Long before the date was set for the referendum on independence on September 18th, Scotland's main museums, its corporate culture vultures and those who approve Scottish public funding for the arts decided this was the year to host a retrospective showing the art the country had produced over the past 25 years.