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Eric Karpeles at the New School at Commonweal: Last Threshold: Artists and Mortality

In the fourth of an ongoing series of New School presentations on the end of life, Bolinas painter and writer Eric Karpeles will talk about the role that artists have played in helping to imaginatively frame and comprehend the idea of how we cease to be. How is it that artists, engaged in the most willful need to express their very beings, seem to overcome the fear of the loss of self? Focusing on three distinct art forms—painting, poetry and music—and three supreme practitioners—Mark Rothko, Emily Dickinson and Gustav Mahler—Karpeles will attempt to create an awareness of how, in their struggle to give voice, artists make use of their accumulated subjective experience to look and listen and learn with acute attention and focus, navigating between the physical world and the life of the mind. The boundary between what we know and what we cannot know is a minefield of stimulation for artists, who help teach us by example how to meaningfully embrace the end that awaits us all. Commonweal Board Member Eric Karpeles is a gifted painter, author of Paintings in Proust, and translator of Proust's Overcoat. The End of Life Conversations are co-presented by The New School at Commonweal and the Coastal Health Alliance. They are scheduled on the first Sundays, September 2010 through February 2011. The time is always 2pm-4pm. Mark your calendars!