Late Thoughts: Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work pylos with jewel-like colors and gold

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In this richly illustrated volume the author argues that because much of Western art depicts key events

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The interdisciplinary approach taken here rewards the reader with some highly stimulating

Late Thoughts: Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work pylos with jewel-like colors and goldEdited by Karen Painter and Thomas Crow Today the West chronically associates artistic maturity with transcendence, degeneration, or irrelevance. This volume looks to the nonrepresentational arts of music, abstract painting and sculpture, and architecture for fresh insight into the juncture of aesthetics and mortality. In part one, Nancy J. Troy considers the fate of Piet Mondrian's final canvases, Thomas Crow finds undiminished joy in abstraction in