Sentences with phrase «fictional alter ego»

Based in New York, Parisian - born artist Cyril Duval (b. 1979) travels through the mediums of art, design, film & visual communication under the fictional alter ego brand ITEM IDEM (Latin for «the same»).

A writer named Shahriar — the author's fictional alter ego — has struggled for years against the all - powerful censor at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

One of Ford's many brilliant decisions here is casting Isla Fisher (forever known as Amy Adam's look - a-like) as her fictional alter ego.

When Jack is lost at sea in a freak storm, Nim asks Alex for help, forcing Alex to brave the very things her fictional alter ego deals with on a daily basis.

Its Me Margaret, and Forever, Blume gave readers fictional alter egos that reassured us — you are so normal.

Not exact matches

The series comes to a dramatic end with a fictional letter, written as though from St Petersburg, in which Chesterton's alter ego, «Guy Crawford», describes himself as joining a rebellious mob in which he recognises an obviously Jewish student called Emmanuel, and as springing to his defence, sword in hand, as the Czarist troops attack: but Emmanuel sustains a fatal blow and dies in the street, «a champion of justice, like thousands who have fallen for it in the dark records of this dark land».

Alistair Campbell, who receives a bollocking of the sort his fictional alter - ego Malcom Tucker dishes out in In The Loop, comes out of it rather less well.

King and his alternative persona Richard Bachman (responsible for schlockier novels like The Running Man) here find fictional proxies in the form of novelist Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton), tormented by his violent alter ego George Stark, a leather - clad creep who begins violently murdering various of the writer's associates.

The album opener, «Black Panther,» finds Lamar rapping in the voice of the superhero's alter ego, T'Challa, king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda.

Or maybe we though Powhida was referencing the fictional perspective of his alter - ego, a coddled, enfant - terrible «art star» also named William Powhida.

If the construction of Roberta Breitmore was a thread from Hershman Leeson's prolific store of alter egos, so was the computer scientist in the movie Conceiving Ada, the fictional Emmy Coeur, who creates a cybernetic bridge to resurrect the character of Ada.

As we recently explored here on Artspace, the alter ego is a trenchant aspect of contemporary art — think of the recent controversy surrounding the Yams Collective's withdrawal from the Whitney Biennial because of artist Joe Scanlan's adopting of a black female identity (fictional artist «Donelle Woolford») as an avatar.

The alter ego travels from New York to San Francisco and Seattle, creating an accumulative fictional narrative as she goes.

An earlier artwork that engages with questions about the influence of consumer culture and technology upon the individual is Lynn Hershman Leeson's pioneering video work Lynn Turning into Roberta (1978), which documents her invention and subsequent fabrication of her fictional alter - ego Roberta Breitmore.

Long before Cindy Sherman was inventing fictional selves for the camera, for instance, Hershman Leeson had come up with an alter ego in the person of the hapless blonde Roberta Breitmore (played by the artist herself, in awkward wig and glasses).

The emerging American artist Libby Schoettle's work centers around the fictional life of her alter ego, PhoebeNewYork.

Alter egos and fictional characters populate Gander's work — David Lange, Abbé Faria, Marie Aurory, Spencer Anthony — a family of surrogates allowing him to avoid the issue of having a stylistic signature.