Memorial Candles: Beauty as Consolation

Do we ever get used to the feelings of loss? Time supposedly heals all wounds. Does it really? Or do we take that time and take that loss and turn it into something else, something that takes the shape and the form of our loss. Is this perhaps the source of the deepest art? Is it the art that actual...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mindy Weisel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Göttingen University Press 2011-01-01
Series:American Studies Journal
Subjects:
art
Online Access:http://www.asjournal.org/archive/55/191.html