Sentences with phrase «fictional works by»

Broadcasts of fictional works by BBC directors like Mike Leigh (Four Days in July) and Alan Clarke (Contact, about British soldiers in South Armagh «s» Bandit Country, «and Elephant, a brutally minimalist depiction of 18 sectarian shootings, one after another) were routinely denounced by right - wingers who freely admitted not having seen them, then rescheduled in the wee small hours.

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These newest results boost the case of the those who argue that immersing yourself in a fictional world populated by layered, complex characters can't help but increase your understanding of how the human mind works and make your fellow humans a little less strange to you.

The biblical hermeneutic of Christian Zionism distorts biblical texts by reading them out of their canonical and historical context, making them seem more like such fictional works as the «Left Behind» series than the whole Word of God.

His work would seem to support the view, in effect, that man is made for relationship with God: not that our relationship to the Creator is just some fictional result of indoctrination by another, but that our natural response to the world is that is has been «made.»

Approved by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, it includes names proposed by the New Horizons team and pays tribute to explorers, futurists, and fictional characters.

Co-written and directed by Ryan Coogler, «Black Panther» is a radically different kind of comic - book movie, one with a proud Afrocentric twist, featuring a nearly all - black cast, that largely ignores the United States and focuses instead on the fictional nation of Wakanda — and guess what: Virtually everything that distinguishes «Black Panther» from past Marvel pics works to this standalone entry's advantage.

The film's largely nonsensical plot involves fictional movie stars (played by Julianne Moore and Evan Bird), ambitious wannabes (Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson), and John Cusack as some sort of literal massage therapist who has his clients work through their past trauma while he works their glutes.

This is the kind of thing you'd expect on a women's cable network movie - of - the - week, and screenwriter Allison Burnett (working from, what I've heard, a more meta - fictional novel by Charles Baxter; this kind of circumstantial plotting might actually work as meta - fiction) takes a kind of dopey sincerity about the whole thing.

The couple - who have been in a relationship together since 2007 - first worked together on 2012's «Ruby Sparks» which was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris from a script by Kazan, and followed an nervous novelist (Dano) whose fictional character, Ruby Sparks, (Kazan) is brought to life.

A graduate of Yale with more connections than capital, Carraway comes to New York in 1922 to work in the bond market and ends up by chance living in a humble cottage next door to Gatsby's huge baronial establishment in fictional West Egg, the nouveau riche enclave on Long Island.

Taking place on the last day of Mishima's life, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer's past as well as gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works.

Based on research and interviews by the screenwriter Paul Laverty, this movie tells the fictional story of Daniel Blake, a middle - aged widower in the North East who can't work or get benefits after a near - fatal heart attack, and the story is told with stark and fierce plainness: unadorned, unapologetic, even unevolved.

These biographical beats are of the routine sort in Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald's screenplay (based on two books: the non-fiction work The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and the fictional novel Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena).

The work found (which is purely fictional) is purported to be the artist's copy of an actual oil by Annibale Carracci, entitled Venus with a Satyr and Cupids.

He had authored a number of books which were released by a major publisher but was currently working on a fictional book which he planned to self - publish.

Not all fictional works, but especially novels where there is an audience that can discover it (zombies, romance, mystery — sure, some genres have more competition among books, but this is compensated for by having more readers), and where the book is pretty good.

Scott based the fictional Dinmont on a real - life breeder of such dogs, James Davidson, who kept a pack of working terriers — Old Mustard, Young Pepper, Young Mustard, Little Pepper, Little Mustard, and Old Pepper — the «immortal six» still spoken of with reverence by Dandie fanciers.

A game of investigation and mystery taking place in a fictional open world inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

The new game, set in a fictional open - world inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, marks a departure for the Ukranian developer who has...

One of the more eyecatching, ambitious gallery displays will be Hauser & Wirth — a recreation of a dusty, fictional regional museum showing bronze works borrowed from regional museums as well as bronze works by Louise Bourgeois, Paul McCarthy and Henry Moore.

Nat Tate, a fictional artist conceived by biographer William Boyd will have his work auctioned off by Sotheby's London November 16th, in the Modern and Post-War British Sale.

The work is inspired by historical, fictional, and scientific sources.

Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black female artist «created» by Joe Scanlan and played by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.

This inquiry stands at the core of the work of Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga whose practice interweaves a research - based investigation influenced by her earlier training in social sciences, with a more subjective and fictional observation of culture.

Wantee, which Prouvost was commissioned to create for Schwitters in Britain, was a collection of works by her fictional grandfather, while Yiadom - Boakye's Chisenhale Gallery exhibition Extracts and Verses featured portraits of imagined sitters with invented backstories.

Fictional or imaginary studios, a popular subject beginning at the end of the nineteenth century, include canvases by James Ensor, Jacek Malczewski, and Diego Rivera; while emphasis on artist's materials can be traced from eighteenth century works by Jean - Baptiste Siméon Chardin; to nineteenth century works by Carl Gustav Carus and Adolph von Menzel; through postwar American artists Jim Dine, Philip Guston, and Jasper Johns.

In this essay by Hans Ulrich Obrist, originally published in Phaidon's Defining Contemporary Art, the esteemed curator discusses No Ghost Just a Shell, the groundbreaking collaborative work that put the pair on the map and introduced the art world to AnnLee, one of the art world's most famous fictional characters of the early aughts.

Canvases are stained by ink that could write countless narratives, but it is the titles, seen at the remove of the list of works, that imbue the paintings with personal, fictional significance.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Atsushi Kaga's work depicts a fictional world inhabited by a cast of invented characters.

For example, an entire exhibition - within - the - exhibition, «Dios es marica» (God Is Queer), organized by Peruvian curator Miguel A. López and including self - portraits by Mexico's Nahum Zenil and Franco - era Spanish drag artist José Pérez Ocaña, among others, occupies a central position in the biennial's trajectory, as do the samplings of comparable work by São Paulo — based artist Hudinilson Jr. and Peruvian philosopher and drag queen Giuseppe Campuzano, whose ambitious Línea de vida / Museo Travesti del Perú (Life's Timeline / Transvestite Museum of Peru), 2009 — 14, a fictional museum, is one of many things in the biennial «that don't exist» — yet.

Many of the works on view in By the Book employ metaphor, allusion, and allegory as structures to evoke a powerfully symbolic visual language, while others are inspired more directly by literary texts and fictional narrativeBy the Book employ metaphor, allusion, and allegory as structures to evoke a powerfully symbolic visual language, while others are inspired more directly by literary texts and fictional narrativeby literary texts and fictional narratives.

This important work by the recent Turner Prize winner is the second piece in a trilogy forming part of an on - going series that navigates the notional architecture and collection of a fictional museum, with this work being the «Hall of Sculptures».

They're not portraits, but representations of fictional characters, their arresting postures, the style in which each is painted, suggest different works by old and 19th - century masters: Caravaggio, Velázquez, Degas.

What follows is what appears to be a fictional review of Henri de Marsay's «latest work» — a fictional character from Balzac's The Human Comedy — who was given five out of five stars by the «reviewer» and writer of the press release, SICKLUCY.

Her body of ceramic works has received much attention, with designs influenced by the 1980s and imagery of cartoon animation with fictional characters such as dinosaurs.

These drawings show that women were working creatively in advertising and fashion as early as the 1930s, decades before the fictional Peggy Olson took Sterling Cooper by storm in Mad Men.

Under the title «Onomatopoeia», the Kunstverein Hannover proudly presents the latest works by Scottish artist Charles Avery (born 1973), who has devoted himself exclusively to the creation of a fictional island archipelago since 2004.

Ryan Gander's works often create fictional histories, and the print Ekow and Abacus Exploring the Dungeon (2008) is a photograph of a watercolour illustration by Mark Beesley - one that portrays the ICA's artistic director, Ekow Eshun, carrying an abacus and a torch in the basement of the organisation.

The View From Here at Tiwani Contemporary, presents works by Kganye and six other artists from Africa and the diaspora, who challenge and explore the status of the photograph's potential for subjective, fictional and poetic musings.

Guedes» work tells through slides and voice - over the story of a fictional contemporary co-operative inspired by the movement.

This challenged traditional notions of art fair display showing works by a series of major European artists amongst the obsessive clutter of a fictional collector's four - room 1968 Paris apartment.

The exhibition charts a kind of narrative itinerary ranging from various works that present intimate correspondence between scammers and victims to so - called «trophy» photographs extracted by vigilante scam - baiters and several video works that feature real or fictional protagonists of scams, including the major new installation «The Rumor of the World» (2014).

The other talking point stands were Seventeen's sit - on - a-snake virtual reality show by Jon Rafman, and Hauser & Wirth's presentation of their artists» work as that of a fictional artist in a mock - up studio (were they trying to transcend the grubby fiscal reality of the fair?).

For this enchanting exhibition, Ms. Treister has made work by the fictional character Hillel Fischer Traumberg, a banker who becomes a self - taught artist.

Ackroyd's work is vital in today's chaotic world, offering us modes of survival in dream - like fictional landscapes, informed by tough realities.

Also on at Vilma Gold running for the same period will be an exhibition of work by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lynn Turning into Roberta, referencing the time the artist spent four years in the mid 1970s moving her physical persona and her life's traces into that of another fictional being constructed and called Roberta Breitmore.

Supported by an Arts Award from the Wellcome Trust, The False Memory Archive at Carroll / Fletcher's new project space will be a series of works developed by Hopwood in collaboration with experimental psychologists, members of the public and a cast of fictional characters that reflect on the history and consequences of false memory research.

On arrival visitors will be met by Stan Douglas» Luanda - Kinshasa, a work that finds a 1970s fictional jazz - funk band (led by jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran) in the midst of a recording session set in a replica of the legendary Columbia 30th Street Studio.

Saunders» work often quotes obscure, often tragic film muses and here he references the fictional film character Leni Peickert, created in the 1960s by the German film director Alexander Kluge.