11.   Audiences feel one kind of pleasure when artists seem to embody a tradition, letting us live fully in its past while being completely individual.

12.   British artists seem particularly drawn to mannequin-style figures as a way to memorialize human beings.

13.   But the artist seemed particularly disheartened by the suggestion that references to a painful past should be avoided.

14.   Even the more adventurous modern artists seem in thrall to the New England spell.

15.   For now, Irish artists seem hypnotized by the spectacle of an ancient land suddenly infused with youthful energy.

16.   Gay artists seem reluctant to acknowledge their homosexuality publicly for fear of alienating mainstream audiences and limiting their appeal to gay listeners.

17.   In that sense, many artists seem, well, unusual.

18.   In other instances, artists seem to repeatedly home in on qualities basic to their own work.

19.   Not that the artists seem to be mounting any campaign for stylistic recovery as such.

20.   Other artists seem to have their own specialty markets outside the mere-nostalgia crowd.