Seelie HWBL 06 013

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Seelie "The artistic fragments refine the life fragments, giving them appeal to a more contemplative level of consciousness than is customary in everyday life, making them safely formal and aesthetically significant. 'Laundered,' the life fragments have — to use the critical term supposedly indicative of heightened aesthetic awareness — a 'crispness' they did not have in life. This crispness is the sign of their autonomy, their new presence, ineffable as well as spontaneously eternal" (p. 124). Kuspit, Donald B. "Collage: The Organizing Principle of Art in the Age of the Relativity of Art." Relativism in the Arts . Betty Jean Craige (ed.), University of Georgia Press, 1983. https://archive.org/details/relativisminarts0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up