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Marta de la Torre is the director of the Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program at Florida International University in Miami

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each of whose influence can be seen in the ancient structures that survive to this day

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Late Thoughts: Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work pylos Marta de la Torre isEdited 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