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Late Thoughts: Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work castlecore The essays began as papersEdited 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