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On the feeling invested in objects: Gonzalez's sculptures and Stewart's narratives of longing.(Ronald Gonzalez and Susan Stewart)

Ronald Gonzalez's sculptures embody the four chief concerns of Susan Stewart in On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Freudian-Lacanian and Marxian insights converge: longing tells of nostalgia for the lost (pre-)maternal Imaginary, for unalienated craft-labour.

The sculptures of Ronald Gonzalez overwhelmingly embody the theme of longing. Elaborating that broad concern, they are unpredictably various. They often frame life in the perspective of death and loss. Yet, among the hundreds of his works I have looked at, we find wit and humour, too--irony, sarcasm, satire, playfulness--a panoply of moods. One critic has found emotional ...

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