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Paperback Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life Book

ISBN: 0804739684

ISBN13: 9780804739689

Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life

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Sustaining Loss explores the uncanny, traumatic weaving together of the living and the dead in art, and the morbid fascination it holds for modern philosophical aesthetics. Beginning with Kant, the author traces how aesthetic theory has been drawn back repeatedly to the moving power of the undead body of the work of art. He locates the most potent expressions of this philosophical compulsion in Hegel's thesis that art is a thing of the past,...

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