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- | [[Image:Theatre from Ars Memoriae by Robert Fludd.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Ars Memoriae]]'': The [[Theatre]] ([[1619]]) - [[Robert Fludd]] | + | [[Image:The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton frontispiece 1638 edition.jpg|thumb|right|200px| [[Book frontispiece|Frontispiece]] for the [[1638]] edition of ''[[The Anatomy of Melancholy]]'' by [[Robert Burton]] ]] |
- | <br> | + | [[Image:L'Absinthe (1876) - Edgar Degas.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[L'Absinthe]]'' ([[1876]]) - [[Edgar Degas]]]] |
- | “In the [[illusion|illusory]] [[babel]]s of language, an [[artist]] might [[avant-garde|advance]] specifically to get [[lost]], and to [[drugs|intoxicate]] himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd [[intersection]]s of [[meaning]], [[strange]] corridors of history, [[unexpected]] echoes, [[unknown]] humors, or [[void]]s of [[knowledge…]] but this quest is [[risky]], full of bottomless [[fiction]]s and endless architectures and [[counter]]-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only [[meaningless]] [[reverberation]]s.” --[[Robert Smithson]]]] | + | [[Image:Der Abend.jpg |thumb|right|200px|''[[Evening|Der Abend]]'' ([[1820]]) by [[Caspar David Friedrich]]]] |
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- Lacking meaning, insignificant.
- All our efforts were ultimately meaningless.
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