Sentences with phrase «abyme as»

Two things simultaneously alienated theatregoers and absorbed theatre critics: the starkness of Welles's stage direction and the innovative use of mise en abyme as a narrative device.

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The staging is so endlessly, even incestuously, self - referential as to earn the epithet mise - en - abyme, a term derived from what happens when you place two mirrors opposite each other, producing an infinite reflection, as in the famous hallway shot from Welles's Citizen Kane.

There, Dorion made use of installation as a device for presenting his painting, as can be seen in the mise en abyme observed in the work Chambre à coucher, 1999.

As mise - en - abyme, they form a picture within a picture, a landscape resting on layers of décor.

Replete with ideas about memory, iconography, representations of race, and models of display, her formally relaxed practice stands as a thought - provoking engagement with pictures en abyme.

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