Sentences with phrase «american magical realism»

The gallery presents contemporary realism paintings that can be American magical realism, narrative or imaginative realism, «Looking Forward into the Past» promises to be a diverse show presenting a range of artist voices.

Some scholars have compared Ruiz's self - reflexive impulses to those of Latin American magical realism.

Not exact matches

For the Colombian author is closely associated with magical realism, a style of prose popular with Latin American writers, and marked by plotlines grounded in reality offset by surreal flights of fancy.

Director and co-writer Guillermo del Toro's sets and art direction pay homage to classics of the creature feature genre, while filtering it through his own Latin American lens of magical realism.

In Amman Abbasi's debut, Dayveon has plenty of big reasons to believe that everything is stupid: His older brother was recently killed in gang - related violence and there isn't much of a chance Dayveon will be able to avoid a similar fate, both because he's already facing hazing rituals with the Bloods in town, and because Abbasi reflects the milieu of a young African American male growing up in the impoverished South in tones of unmitigated naturalism shot through with shreds of magical realism.

For example, the elements of magical realism inherent in the works of Latin American writers consist of regional phrases and usages from Latin American culture.

One of the most anticipated books of the year (we, along with everyone else, have been buzzing about it since January), the new novel from the author of Salvage the Bones blends magical realism with race relations in the 21st - century American South.

Taken together, «Skin Deep» provides a crash course in the possibilities of contemporary American imaginative and magical realism.

Schwartz can be fairly neatly fitted into the tradition of Magical Realism, a loosely aligned group of American painters — Jared French is one; Paul Cadmus, another — drawn to enigmatic narratives, hushed symbolism, painstaking craft and the male nude, both as historical touchstone (cf. Michelangelo) and object of adoration.