Sentences with phrase «about magical realism»

«The genre's popularity is due to the fact that chronicles bleed across into fiction, without talking about magical realism.

This quarter, we're going to learn about magical realism.

Not exact matches

(I suppose that that tingly feeling of being SPECIAL and of having the fantasy that my prayers somehow are a bit of magical power and control about what's going on is missing, but realism is what it is)

Like Water For Chocolate Year: 1992 Director: Alfonso Arau An adaptation of Laura Esquievel's novel about Mexican cooking and magical realism, Like Water for Chocolate depicts the passionate but forbidden love between two young people, Tita and Pedro.

Empty Nest (Unrated) Argentinean slice of magical realism about a man (Oscar Martinez) in the midst of a midlife crisis who takes refuge from his crumbling marriage in a parallel fantasy universe of his own creation.

Set designer Rae Smith talks about finding an appropriate way to fill the Olivier stage for the production of All's Well That Ends Well, and bringing a sense of magical realism to the show.

In the beginning, when I was trying to sell my first novel, I had a weird experience of editors really wanting me to write, sort of magic realism set in the Caribbean, or about recent immigrants with a magical ability (I've had two editors actually give me that logline and ask if I'd be interested in writing that story, but it's just not there for me, I've got other stories still to tell).

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.

Despite the fact that I am not, as a rule, a fan of magical realism, I totally loved this book about a gay, nerdy, teenager who — while struggling to define himself - is serially abducted by aliens.

So here's a sampling of YA lit — including dystopian science fiction, magical realism and contemporary realistic fiction — that explores questions about teens, bodies and decision making.

It includes what some might call magical realism, and others, the transformation that Love brings about.

Filled with magical realism in the face of the cold reality of modern life, these stories are about discovering something precious in the chaos of daily existence.

I'm about to indie publish a YA magical realism novella which was too short and too different to even consider going the traditional route, but what do you advise doing with my novel?

The painting — very beautiful, highly realistic and almost classical in its restrained realism and crisp light — seemed to sum up everything that was glamorous, talented and magical about the decade that had just finished.

, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 14th Annual Inliquid Benefit Auction, Gallery Joe Booth, Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2013 In Front of Strangers, I Sing: 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2012 Transformations, Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA All About Etchings, Chris Neptune Gallery, Washington, DC 2011 Something French, Art Gallery at City Hall, Philadelphia, PA Exhibition of Select Prints, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2010 Prints by Gallery Artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA Selections from C.R. Ettinger Studio, 2000 - 2010, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2009 50 very small drawings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2008 The Figure Today, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY The Figure Today, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA Fantastical Imaginings, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE Group Show, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD 2007 Magical Realism, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA 2006 Art on Paper 2006, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC 2005 Telling Stories: The Narrative in Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA Collaboration As a Medium, Edison Gallery, Washington, DC (traveling Art Place, Baltimore MD and more sites) 2004 Figure Out: Drawing as Narrative, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2002 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 2001 Ten Contemporary Artists, 5 x 2, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 2000 Drawing With Color, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA When Reason Dreams: Drawings Inspired By the Visionary, the Fantastic, and the Unreal, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Body Dismorphia, Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA curated by Jeanne Jaffe Allentown Art Museum, 27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Allentown, PA (Juror: Judith Tannenbaum, Curator, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI) 1999 Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Institute of Contemporary Art, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (catalog) Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA (Nov. - Dec.)