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A 10 page paper which examines the focus on and symbolic nature of art as seen in Jane Urquhart’s novel “The Stone Carvers.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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connection with the art form itself. Making art can help people find their identity, help them express themselves, and help them connect with the rest of the world. Art is
many things to those who create it. In Jane Urquharts novel "The Stone Carvers" we see many different elements and levels of human development and existence as it involves art.
The following paper first examines how this novel offers art as a redemptive endeavor and reality, and then examines how Urquharts writing is very much the same for her, for
it is her art, her form of artistic expression. Art as Redemptive While there are many characters in this particular novel, and several are artists, there is only
one that is the primary focus, with all other artists pointing to her and her development. One author notes that, "Klara represents all young women who have ever loved and
lost: when her lover, Eamon, runs off to fight in the Great War and disappears, she becomes an icon of repressed, smouldering grief" (Bemrose 54). Klara, not her brother, is
the one to inherit the need and desire and vision of art, the art of stone carving. And, because she is an "icon of repressed, smouldering grief" art takes here
where she needs to go. Klara is taught from an early age that art is a very powerful thing. Her grandfather, a master carver, tells her "Any work of
art...must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world" (Urquhart 165). There is a powerful sense of spiritual awakening and personal awakening in this and as
one critic notes, "The novel frequently relates art to spirituality" (The Stone Carvers). Art is powerful and it can achieve many things. It is a form of expression for Klara
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