Strongly written and gracefully structured, Demick's potent
blend of personal narratives and piercing journalism vividly and evocatively portrays courageous individuals and a tyrannized state within a saga of unfathomable suffering punctuated by faint glimmers of hope.
Not exact matches
The precedent for
blending a scholarly reading
of Tocqueville with
personal narrative was set by Poulos's graduate school mentor, Joshua Mitchell, in his Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age (2013).
It's a wildly impressive fusion
of a director, Robert Zemeckis, at the top
of his game, a screenwriter, John Gatins, expertly
blending personal experience with an array
of creative
narrative choices, and a tremendous lead performance by Denzel Washington.
In this impressive picture - book biography, she skillfully
blends the
personal and political stories
of the nation's 26th president, adding Roosevelt's own words to the mix through quotes that enrich the
narrative while delivering a sense
of the plainspoken eloquence for which he was famous.
Produced to coincide with «Re: Mine,» McArthur Binion's inaugural solo show at Galerie Lelong, this monograph is the first in the artist's 40 - year practice (a
blend of Minimalism and
personal narrative) and features an interview with Binion conducted by Franklin Sirmans and an essay by Lowery Stokes Sims.
As Charlotte Cotton, critic and former curator
of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) as well as the Wallis Annenberg Department
of Photographs at the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, writes in The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World
of Art): «Harris makes a map
of visual and ideological connections...
blending high criticality and
personal narrative to suggest that all photography inherently carries representational meaning beyond the intent or making
of the photographer.»
Blend the
personal and professional so they're seamlessly woven into one
narrative of your competence and sparkle.