Sentences with phrase «alternative history»

Beginning with a perspective informed by personal experience, each of these artists present alternative histories which challenge traditional western notions of art and who has been allowed to speak through art.

I have a harder time with alternative history fiction.

At their most productive, such returns can challenge our conventional definition of a «historic» exhibition, and prompt us to create alternative histories.

It was «twisted» because we had comedy writers, fiction, non-fiction and other genre writers all writing alternative history.

I was reluctant to start this one because I usually don't like alternative histories.

Within their Bermondsey gallery, White Cube is currently exhibiting works by Josiah McElheny (Boston USA, 1966) narrating the last decade of McElheny's ongoing exploration of alternative histories of modernism and the politics of aesthetics.

Third, using a «semi-empirical» statistical model calibrated to the relationship between temperature and global sea - level change over the last 2000 years, we find that, in alternative histories in which the 20th century did not exceed the average temperature over 500-1800 CE, global sea - level rise in the 20th century would (with > 95 % probability) have been less than 51 % of its observed value.

The open back contains images, objects and ephemera that relate to the building and open up readings for the viewer that might propose alternative histories and possible futures for the building.»

This is the premise of my ambitious new alternative history trilogy, Saga of the Iron Dragon.

In the exhibition Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive these issues are addressed from queer perspectives through art works offering alternative histories and reworked archives.

It makes it tough to recommend, even for a Chronicles aficionado, because the other things that went into making the earlier game so enjoyable — a jaunty alternative history / fantasy plot populated by an interesting bunch of characters — feel half - baked here.

«Deadlands» is a genre - bending alternative history of the Weird West, filled with undead gunfighters, card - slinging sorcerers, mad scientists, secret societies, and fearsome abominations.

Set in 18th century alternative history England, the game follows a linear story line of The Order — a group of powerful...

Set in 18th century alternative history England, the game follows a linear story line of The Order — a group of powerful knights — who protect the citizens of London from beast - like half breeds.

Everywhere these days, museums are looking for global alternative histories to Minimalism.

Her work belongs to the Afrofuturism movement in its imagining alternative histories of African people.

Hill Street brings together compelling anecdotes and fascinating, grainy footage of the city and the skaters for an interesting alternative history of the capital.

As Shaw says of alternative history SF stories, in his «how to» book, «By portraying the way things might have been they give us new insights into the way things are.»

He has co-authored six science fiction-esque alternative histories.

Paradox Interactive was created to build fantasy, science fiction and alternative history brands in cross-media platforms.

Video games can produce alternative histories — Caesar can lose to the Helvetii.

Scholars such Goodwin Liu, now a justice on the California Supreme Court, have generated creative but unpersuasive alternative histories of the Fourteenth Amendment just for that purpose.

Hop over to her blog to find out the answers, and also to read more about her terrific Roma Nova series of alternative history thrillers (or alternate history, as the Americans call it, to the irritation of purists everywhere).

A book club based in Central Mississippi that orbits around works in the Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Alternative History genres.

Kowal's latest is a dazzling alternative history set during the Great War.

A chilling tale of intrigue and betrayal in the aftermath of an American nuclear war, and one of the most inventive novels of alternative history since Robert Harris's Fatherland.

Grossman's wickedly witty alternative history stars one of our most (in) famous and parodied presidents, Richard Nixon.

We were number one in our category in the U.S. Amazon store earlier this week, and are currently number ones in the fantasy, science fiction, and alternative history categories in Canada.

If you've struggled with being approved for credit or loans in the past, the FICO XD uses alternative history and data to determine your creditworthiness and may help you have more successful credit applications in the future.

The game became a heavily story - based alternative history turn - based RPG.

Then there's Frostpunk, which blends the bleakest possible alternative history with a scaled - back city builder, all in service of an exploration of humanity, morality and the choices made in the name of survival.

The game also won't dabble with alternative history according to Dice's Daniel Berlin, lead game designer

2 alternative history campaigns (17 missions)?

Carbone writes: «Soutine remains an outsider to the mainstream narrative of Modernism; he belongs instead to the still largely unwritten alternative history of modernist figurative painting.

The roots of this project are found in her remarkable trilogy of Atlas books which propose creative mapping as a means to relay alternative histories of place, specifically in Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas and in Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas.

Created between 2008 and 2017, the works represent the artists efforts to visualize alternative histories of Modernism.

Weaving together fact and fiction, the walk will reveal alternative histories for the places encountered between the two locations.

She aimed to one - up online fabrications by inventing a wildly alternative history of ancient art.

But instead of offering the expansive alternative history so many of us hoped for, the National Academy has showcased the collection of an organization called the Center for Figurative Painting, the brainchild of a man of means by the name of Henry Justin, whose taste is a Rocky Balboa blitz of swagger, flash, and bravado.

His works trace alternative histories of British modernism — those that are often overshadowed by the canonical modernist narrative and particularly those relating to the decorative or domestic.