It turns into something durable that will outlast them. So, the problem with art is in a sense that it is immortal.

那么，它让事物脱离它本身而,永存，那么，艺术的问题在于它的永恒。

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studio stuffs that comes in, other artists, any calls you get.

工作室的事情，其它艺术家的问题，你会接到各种电话。

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Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.

第一，对艺术意志自由问题的困扰,对艺术是自身的法律，它不响应其他准则,它只有本身这唯一的目的，也就是说。

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Every major African-American poet and writer and artist from frankly the mid-nineteenth century on has always been reflecting on this nexus of North and South.

大约十九世纪中期以后的,每一位主流的非裔美籍诗人,作家或艺术家,都一直在探讨南北关系的问题

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