Sentences with phrase «encyclopedic compendium»

Taken together, these images constitute an encyclopedic compendium of contemporary visual culture that also engages the history of landscape painting.

It isn't some sentimental war story, but a highly detailed, near - encyclopedic compendium that goes deep into V - 2 rocket technology, secret Nazi collaborations with U.S. corporate interests, the dawning atomic age and a kind of fascist dystopia.

Note that I didn't call The Forbidden Room Maddin's «latest film,» for this isn't so much a film as an encyclopedic compendium of cinematic possibilities, a cauldron bubbling over with highly spiced visual and narrative tropes.

If it offered nothing more, Earth in the Balance would make a handy, nearly encyclopedic compendium of environmental problems.

The Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), an encyclopedic compendium of prescription drugs marketed in the U.S., devotes six pages to a description of the powers and hazards of this drug, its uses and abuses.

But for someone who wants an encyclopedic compendium of the state of the question for almost any topic in the field, this is an excellent reference work.

Be warned: despite the title, the book is not one of those pretty encyclopedic compendia of photogenic shells of the world; rather, it is an exploration of shells as structures, essentially the homes, fortresses, vehicles and in some ways prisons of the animals that build and occupy them.