Sentences with phrase «fictive means»

«Performance» is suspect as rhetoric because it is it an artful, but fictive means of communicating «truth.»

Not exact matches

With Ahab's Wife, I wanted to create a female fictive character of intelligence and courage, one capable of sustaining an epic quest for meaning that was both physical and metaphysical.

Once you see that invention is the only reason behind the things we expect to be, that's when you understand that images can purport so much more than simply a rendering of a subject in a time and place, they can illustrate the notions we have about what an image means and how it is used — and how certain people are seen — even in the realm of the fictive.

Shortly before the first works in the current exhibition were painted he explained: «I would say that to look at a painting means that one is taken up with another reality, a pictorial fictive reality, and as such that picture represents an imaginary location.

Provides that fictive kin means a person not related by birth, adoption or marriage with whom a child has an emotionally significant relationship.