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Who will argue that the destruction of the frail canvas is the destruction of these conceptions?
Said by
Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Here, Jacobs challenges the notion that the destruction of a physical artwork equates to the loss of the ideas it represents, advocating for the permanence of artistic concepts.

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