Issue 5.2
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Classical painting of a young girl surrounded by attendants, an artist, and a dog in a studio setting.
Rhetoric/Composition: Intersections / Impasses / Differends
2004

"Even if rhetoric is the art of never finally answering the question, "What is rhetoric?" this art would necessarily include all attempts to finally answer that question."

—John Muckelbauer, "Returns of the Question"
Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez, 1656-1657. The Prado in Google Earth