Sentences with phrase «fugue on»

A recording of Benjamin Britten's sparkling The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, a composition meant to introduce children to the various musical instruments, serves brilliantly as a musical expression of how each character has a colorful role in the landscape and community.

For instance, one could imagine asking your computer to make up a performance that's similar to songs you've listened to, or to hum a melody and tell it to make a fugue on command.

From Calvin to Barth has echoed a thundering fugue on the glory of God.

or the equally radiant conclusion of his doctrine of creation in God's Yes to the world, or the three chapters on God's perfections, or that astonishing triple fugue on faith, obedience and prayer that concludes the doctrine of providence.

William Blake is the only poet ever to have created an apocalypse or a fully apocalyptic work of art — for, according to Northrop Frye, Milton and Jerusalem are inseparable, and constitute a «double epic,» a prelude and fugue on the same subject.

Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

Not exact matches

Thus, when I spied a Tagalongs - style peanut butter pie on Tasting Table this week and realized that it was easy enough that I could pull it off in my current sleep - deprived fugue while also filing the vast peanut butter pie - shaped hole in the archives, it was a done deal.

In need of a new kidney and having learned that he has a long - lost daughter, dimwit Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) snaps his equally cretinous pal, Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey), out of an apparent fugue state to accompany him on a journey to find her.

The movie's focus is on the almost musical dialogue of Amanda and Lily as they bounce viewpoints about, like the music of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C - Minor.

References and homages to the cherished memories of those of us who grew up on video games, comicbooks, blockbuster (and not so blockbusting) movies, abound and will keep many fandom obsessed viewers in a serotonin soaked fugue state of euphoria.

When Mary wakes up on a Hampton beach in a fugue state, all assumptions of her identity are thrown into doubt.

SO FAR SO CLOSE, Exhibition catalogue, Almine Rech Gallery, 2017 255 PLATES, Triangle Books, Brussels, 2015 STUDIES FOR SUNSETS, Karma, New York, 2014 FUGUE, Triangle Books, Brussels, 2014 SCENIC DRIVE AHEAD, Bunk Edition, 2014 ON KNOWING AND NOT, John d'Agata and Jean - Baptiste Bernadet, Karma, New York, 2013 IF THERE IS A CHANCE, Jean - Baptiste Bernadet & Benoit Platéus, Karma, New York, 2011 ANONYMOUS, Jean - Baptiste Bernadet & Xavier Noiret - Thomé, Art Paper Editions, Gent, 2011

December 2013 Untitled (Fugue IX), Untitled (Fugue X), Untitled (Fugue XI), oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm each, 2013 © Sylvie Chan - Liat

Even the broad evocations that the shapes draw out - the entire list above was the majority of my notes on the show; I wandered in a fugue, cataloging shapes as if sea creatures - demonstrate something essential and primal about art.

This Scottish novelist's post-Brexit, climate - addled fugue won a spot on the Booker shortlist and acclaim from my colleagues on the Book Review, who also named it one of the 10 best books of 2017.

In this fugue state, the relationship between subject and object is particularly unstable: here, possession and possessor leave traces of themselves on one another, rendering their edges uncertain, shifting like the weather.

It is based on Paul Celan's severe and melancholic poem from 1945, «Death Fugue.»

His latest solo exhibition at Valentin Paris, Solarium, opened on May 19th; fresh off a series of paintings called Fugue shown almost back - to - back at Alon Segev in Tel - Aviv and Rod Barton in London (who first displayed the series back in 2014 at NADA NY).

Fugue of Play: An Exhibition on Art and Video Games, Curated by Alle Jung.

Vetiver and Fugues are two series on which the artist has been working for five years and has shown in previous exhibitions.

Recent exhibitions and screenings include CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016/17); Historicode: Scarcity & Supply, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China, (2016/17); fugue states, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2015); Ripples on The Pond, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2015); MOTHS, Summerhall, Edinburgh (2015); 3 Scripts for Future - telling, a performance for Tenletters, Glasgow (2015); Our Extra-Sensory Selves (premiere), Glasgow International Film Festival (2015); Let The Body Be Electric, Let There Be Whistleblowers, an exhibition with Allison Gibbs, Ken Jacobs and Joachim Koester at Dan Gunn Berlin, curated by Heidi Ballet and Anselm Franke (2014); Spirits of Ecstasy (Murnau's Death Mask), The Happy Hypocrite - Heat Island (issue 7 spring 2014 edited by Isla Leaver - Yap); Kelly, Glasgow International (2014) and SPIRIT SHADOW SPECTRE BONES and PHANTOM, Intermedia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2013).

In Walker Percy's book The Last Gentleman the protagonist is constantly going into a «fugue state» and awaking from his amnesia to find he's no longer in New York City but on a historic Civil War battlefield in Virginia, hundreds of miles away.

On my trip to London on what must be the hottest day of the year so far, even though it's now about 7 o'clock in the evening it's still really warm and here I am wearing a suit, carrying luggage and chasing across the capital to visit Westminster Library, to see collages by John Bunker in the show Six Fugues, curated by Sam CornisOn my trip to London on what must be the hottest day of the year so far, even though it's now about 7 o'clock in the evening it's still really warm and here I am wearing a suit, carrying luggage and chasing across the capital to visit Westminster Library, to see collages by John Bunker in the show Six Fugues, curated by Sam Cornison what must be the hottest day of the year so far, even though it's now about 7 o'clock in the evening it's still really warm and here I am wearing a suit, carrying luggage and chasing across the capital to visit Westminster Library, to see collages by John Bunker in the show Six Fugues, curated by Sam Cornish.

Each painting places decades of work into dialogue within singular canvases, the exhibition progressing like 30 variations on a fugue, from Kusama's «Infinity Nets» of the late 1950s that spread like Spanish moss, to her zoetic polka dots, saturated chromatic fantasias, and obsessive reproductions of single shapes.

Takashi Ishida, Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue), 2001 [film] 16 mm film (sound) 19» 00» [original drawing] Pen, ink on paper (set of 18)[copy] Xerox print (a 10,000 pieces) Sold for HKD 542,000

But not all baroque music is akin to clockwork — and certainly not the 1,100 works of the master, which spanned a wide variety of forms from chorales and Lutheran hymns, through canons, fugues, partitas and on to motets.