Sentences with phrase «autobiographical work of»

Resonating with the autobiographical work of Louise Bourgeois, an artist whom Emin greatly admired, the appliquéd blankets subvert the traditionally held view of sewing as a feminine craft, recasting it as a form of collage and self - expression.

While she shares many similarities with other contemporary artists through her use of materials, Orly uses a lighter touch than is found in the political commentaries of Laura Splan and Ghada Amer, and more closely resembles the autobiographical work of Tracey Emin.

He says that the album is «easily the most confessional and autobiographical work of my career.»

Gallery Espace was established in New Delhi (India), in 1989 by Renu Modi with an exhibition of autobiographical works of MF Husain, Modern India's most celebrated artist and one of the founder members of the path - breaking Progressive Artists Group.

Not exact matches

Intellectual Memoirs, 1936 — 1938 by Mary McCarthy Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 114 pages, $ 15.95 The novelist and critic Mary McCarthy, who died in 1989, was up to the time of her death working on a memoir of her life in the late 1930s, in effect a sequel to her two previous autobiographical....

Indeed, reading Homage to Catalonia alongside 1984 is instructive, as in the autobiographical work Orwell clearly charts his growing distrust of the Communist forces and his growing admiration for the anarchists who were of course betrayed and in many cases murdered by their Stalinist «allies».

Call me Woman» is the title of an autobiographical work by Ellen Kuzwayo, one of the noblest of South African women who waged scientific war against...

«This work is the first step toward a better understanding of the autobiographical self in the internet era where the virtual externalization of personal memories has become commonplace,» the study said.

The idea builds on the work of renowned neuroscientist Endel Tulving, who pioneered the study of human episodic memory — the recall of our autobiographical past.

«Almost Famous» (2000) Crowe's been consistently unafraid to draw from his own experiences, but his epic «Almost Famous» is certainly his most autobiographical work, telling the tale of how, as an underage high - schooler, he ended up working at Rolling Stone magazine (in this case, covering fictional band Stillwater), falling in love, and coming of age.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

For Smoczynska, who came of age inside the confines of a nightclub where her parents worked, the film's autobiographical dimension was eventually phased out by the specificity of Robert Bolesto's screenplay and sisters Barbara and Zuzanna Wrońskie's music.

Generally favoring low - budget and independently - produced pictures, but not averse to working within the studio system (he had a good relationship with Daryl Zanuck), he knocked out a string of genre classics — from «Pickup On South Street» and «Forty Guns» to «Shock Corridor» and his epic autobiographical masterpiece «The Big Red One» — that quietly influenced many of your favourite directors.

Two motifs predominate in Ross McElwee's 25 - plus years of autobiographical filmmaking: the search for identity in the face of handed - down ideas about family, love, and work; and the undertaking of journeys fueled by desire, curiosity, and varying degrees of irony.

Fortunately, the comparison is more than superficial, and according to most, the film only shares the strengths of Dunham's work — sharp, acerbic humor, painful autobiographical situations and a fresh, unique voice.

The two filmmakers discuss specific examples from their own bodies of work and how those relate to their own directorial processes, focusing on autobiographical elements, locations (especially cities), working with actors, and how an artist's personality or personal life becomes a part of their work.

It's a fond, unfussy, affable, and extremely casual comedy about two French teenage boys — and, given that it's set in Gondry's own home town of Versailles, it looks for all the world like an autobiographical work.

The first sign that the story may be autobiographical is that director Josh Mond, known for «Martha Marcy May Marlene» about an abused woman who leaves a cult and which is a superior piece of work, early on shows the family sitting shiva over the death of James's father.

The autobiographical story tells of Thompson (under the name Paul Kemp in the novel) in his 20s with failing ambitions of being a novelist, who finds himself working for a paper in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1960.

As the story concerns a man frustrated working for a successful business while being artistically unfulfilled, I couldn't help but wonder if coming off of studio films, the story was at all autobiographical, but Favreau maintains this isn't the case:

As it is, there are snatches of brilliance embedded in the margins of what resolves itself as a disturbed twenty - something man working out issues using other people's money; Freddy Got Fingered is, like Green's short - lived Canadian cable access and MTV sketch shows, emotionally raw and unbearably autobiographical.

Jacobs's autobiographical account of her harrowing childhood and young adulthood was so detailed in its depiction of the horrors she had endured that many readers thought it must be a work of fiction.

Selected Foreign Publications about Howard Gardner (PDF) Mind, Work, and Life: A Festschrift On the Occasion of Howard Gardner's 70th Birthday (PDF) «A Blessing of Influences,» an excerpt of an autobiographical essay published in Howard Gardner Under Fire (PDF) One Way of Making a Social Scientist (PDF) Short biography written by Ellen Winner (PDF) «My Way,» a chapter in Psychologists Defying the Crowd by Robert Sternberg (Amazon) Fifty Modern Thinkers of Education: From Piaget to the Present Day (Amazon) «21 years later, «Multiple Intelligences» still debated» (Washington Post) «Thought Leaders: An Interview with Howard Gardner» (Strategy & Business)

From my experiences working in collaboration with Susan Florio - Ruane, I have seen how autobiography and autobiographical fiction can encourage the study of diversity and multiculturalism in ways that penetrate the reading and language arts curriculum in teacher education and for school - aged students (Florio - Ruane with deTar, 2001; Raphael et al., 2001).

For example, in our Book Club Plus work in third grades, this played out in an author study of Patricia Polacco, a prolific Michigan author who through her autobiographical fiction shares family stories of her Russian immigrant and her Michigan farmer ancestors.

Its policy is to publish poetry, short fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, memoir, essay reviews, nature - writing, translated work, literary journalism, and other autobiographical, historical, religious and scientific writing of literary distinction.

Autobiographical, it contains sharp insights and the stem cells of Maugham's important works.

It informs everything he has written, for his work is restlessly autobiographical, infused with the urgency of thinking through his life on paper.

«It was the autobiographical nature of the work, this exploration of Dresden's bombing through the eyes of a survivor.

The nominees, chosen by a blue - ribbon panel of judges, reflect the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from crime noire to autobiographical works to cartoon adventures.

The Pulitzer Prize - winning author — «an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist» (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)-- offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award - winning fiction.

When I began outlining my plans to Jack, talking through the editorial process and discussing the benefits of publishing his autobiographical work in ebook form, the ninety - four - year old nodded, smiled, and said.

«I consider Andy's work to be really autobiographical, very deeply felt, and the opposite of everything he said about it,» says Kass, who is in the Met show and has a major midcareer retrospective opening October 27 at the Andy Warhol Museum.

At times a kind of nostalgia bubbles to the surface, and while the works are not intended to be primarily autobiographical documents, each holds the indelible marks of the maker and the things that hold meaning for her.

Often inspired by autobiographical details and by the arduous transformations of his home country, Paci's work intertwines personal narratives with metaphorical and poetical chronicles of the experience of life in exile.

Often drawing upon autobiographical, art historical or sociological sources, Ruby's work is frequently referred to as «post-humanist» — a term that broadly describes a society which, thanks in part to technological advancement, has evolved beyond fixed categories of being (e.g. time / place), or predetermining classifications (e.g. animal / human).

The spiritual and autobiographical content as well as the formal artistic qualities in this body of work interconnect in ways that have never been examined before.

Although Emin first rose to prominence as part of the so - called generation of Young British Artists (YBA), the highly autobiographical nature of her work set it apart from the general artistic trends of the 1980s and 1990s.

'» In the long, autobiographical prose poem composed of 100 clipped sentences, Silliman details his working - class upbringing in Albany, Calif..

In an interview that coincided with the opening, Bourgeois explained that the imagery in her work, which deals with themes such as jealousy, violence, sexual desire, betrayal, fear, anxiety and loneliness, was wholly autobiographical and a form of catharsis.

His powerful work is improvisational and free in that it goes beyond the autobiographical and chronicles daily life and history of people all over the South.

The work is somewhat autobiographical though Patrick is not in the work itself there is a slice of voyeurism.

«Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe» includes works from all of Barlett's major series including the «House Paintings», «In the Garden» series, the «Air: 24 Hours» series, the autobiographical «Earth Paintings», the «Word Paintings» and recent works that depict houses, trees and plants surrounding her homes in Amagansett and Brooklyn, NY.

Past works, such as Mask (2011), Cao (2014), and Surveillance Camera with Plinth (2015), each infused with autobiographical elements, transmit ideas of isolation, displacement, governmental control, and environmental disuse.

Much of Fujiwara's work is deeply autobiographical, mixing fact and fiction to create intricate installations and performances which draw on his family history.

The intensity of Goldin's autobiographical works compliments her reproductions of art history's great masters.

As with all of Bourgeois» work, Spider III is intensely autobiographical, relating particularly to her early childhood and the difficult relationship she had with her family.

She has written two collections of poems, The Lost Notebook (2005) and Swift (2012), and translated Jacques Réda's poetry, Treading Lightly: Selected Poems 1961 — 1975 (2005), as well as his autobiographical work, The Mirabelle Pickers (Aller aux mirabelles)(2012).

Their work spans a wide spectrum of approaches, dealing with intimate autobiographical references to over-arching archival systems exposing the politics of listening.

Remaining faithful to the materiality and autobiographical nature of her more intimately sized works, here the artist pushes into larger canvases, incorporating found materials into allegorical, albeit elusive constructions.