Sentences with phrase «magic realism»

Next, discuss the elements of magic realism in the book, asking students to point to specific examples.

A character - driven romance that pulses with magic realism.

Maybe it's better described as magic realism: Her eccentric characters feel real, even as their surroundings are bizarre.

I was also interested in literature about magic realism written in that area and style, but I developed a certain interest for the metaphysical paintings and its surroundings.

A piece of magic realism not to be missed.

The new, large full - color art is magic realism at its finest, revealing mass cruelty as well as distinctive individuals and the connections between them.

The use of magic realism is seamless and blended into the novel in such a cohesive way I can't imagine the story without it.

«Fictional Portraits painted in a style verging on magic realism create a haunting impression in Odutola's NYC museum debut.»

Many historians cite John Wilde (1919 — 2006)-- painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of fantastic imagery — as one of the pioneers of magic realism in Wisconsin.

One of the most significant Slovak directors of the 90s era, Martin Šulík, returns on the big screen after 2011 social drama Gypsy tinged with his easy - to - recognize magic realism style.

CHARLES BURNETT»S TO SLEEP WITH ANGER By Ashley Clark The Old South meets South Central in this recently restored 1990 tale, blending magic realism with authentic detail

Rudolph takes Lucas's penchant for magic realism as an invitation to do his own job: giving visual representation to the protagonist's spiralling neuroses.

The Cobbler (2014) American magic realism comedy - drama film directed by Thomas McCarthy and co-written with Paul Sado.

At once daringly inventive and acutely aware of the human heart, Tuten can move seamlessly from magic realism to more traditional prose.

William Kentridge has his first solo in Mumbai, Shana Moulton presents magic realism in Indiana, Yinka Shonibare MBE is the subject of a London conference...

John Wilde, a major figure in Wisconsin Art and a leader in the American Surrealism movement called Magic Realism.

In the beginning, when I was trying to sell my first novel, I had a weird experience of editors really wanting me to write, sort of magic realism set in the Caribbean, or about recent immigrants with a magical ability (I've had two editors actually give me that logline and ask if I'd be interested in writing that story, but it's just not there for me, I've got other stories still to tell).

Their approach is a kind of down - home magic realism and their hero an archetype of folklore — Br «er Rabbit or Paul Bunyan — whose doings amount to a collection of tall tales.

Cuaron's version of magic realism consists of seeing incredibly fanciful sets and situations in precise detail.

Jacques Audiard's clever use of magic realism allows us to glimpse Malik's inner struggle with his own humanity as we return to the scene of his first hit — a disturbing quasi-religious baptism of blood with a razor.

One of the things that most impressed us about the film when it premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival was the director's bold storytelling style, and if anything this teaser perhaps underplays the dreamy otherworldliness and magic realism which sets the film apart from your average biopic.

Using magic realism together with impressive camera work and CGI effects, Bird People reflects that...

«As we ended up championing a remarkable diversity of styles,» said Johnson, «there was much discussion about what these films mean about where cinema is headed — whether it be the immersive magic realism of «Uncle Boonmee», the ruthless neo-realism of «Winter's Bone», or the subversive mischief of «Exit Through the Gift Shop».»

The Tracking Board reports the CW is developing a murder mystery with «magic realism overtones» from Sleepy Hollow writer, Joey Falco.

It mixes magic realism with a certain fairytale sensibility that has been the hallmark of Jordan's career (his hero even wakes in a castle at one point), used here as something like a Miltonic homily along the lines of «The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.»

Magic realism helps create an atmospheric novel of family, heritage, and illness» difficulties.

With light magic realism, Ruby relates the strange disappearance of Polish immigrant Roza, which leaves two brothers, who loved Roza for different reasons, at serious odds.

What publisher is going to put out a book about oral story telling, set in the Scottish Highlands, complete magic realism, and incredibly impeccable descriptions of local geology.

Such as, «This is a 75,000 - word work of historical magic realism.»

Lush magic realism is a backdrop for this exploration of sexual identity.

BKL: In your novels Milagros and The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, you employ magic realism.

For fiction, she is most interested in acquiring science fiction and fantasy, though she also enjoys magic realism, historical fiction and stories inspired by folklore from around the world.

I have had two novels published by a small independent publisher, as well as three poetry books by a separate independent poetry publisher, but it was my first novel, A Darker Moon, that prompted me to respond to your survey because, amongst other things, I consider it to be literary fiction (plus dark fiction and dark fantasy, plus psychological horror, plus mythic magic realism — it's very much cross-genre, but underlying it all is the literary fiction aspect of the book).

Later still, as in a lovely small painting of roses in a white vase from 1988, he veered toward Magic Realism.

George Tooker brings magic realism back from the dead.

A piece by magic realism landscapist, Peter Doig, entitled Figure in Landscape can be found under lot number 111, estimated between 89,348 — 127,640 USD.

An original Malik Seneferu his paintings feature magic realism themes, as well as extremely intense colors to express the way it feels to be a young person.

Her work incorporates humble materials and everyday objects to create scenes of magic realism based on an abstracted narrative of the artist's history.

Magic realism developed as an art movement in the years after World War I when many American artists began to explore the interconnections between the material and the imagined.

This exhibition takes the legacy of Wilde as its starting point and explores the ideals of magic realism through a wide variety of techniques and media, including print, painting, video, sculpture, and fiber - based works.

Evidenced in literature, painting, and film, magic realism encompasses a range of subtly different concepts, yet all share an acceptance of the supernatural in an otherwise rational world.

If this dreamlike tableau isn't really animated — it isn't clear who's being killed and by whom — this is art that's designed to resonate in the mind as much as the eye: a sumptuous magic realism for the digital age, with a random, search - engine - like connection - making rendered in oil painting that delights with the sheer richness of its surfaces.

A sense of magic realism permeates the images, which range from shots of Aztec ruins, rooster fights, and street footage to portraits of the artist performing symbolic gestures meant to convey Wojnarowicz's sense of powerlessness over the purposeful indifference of the American government and public to the AIDS epidemic.

Published to accompany a major display at Tate Modern in London, Magic Realism draws upon the remarkable assembly of German and Austrian paintings in the George Economou Collection and features rarely seen work by Otto Dix, George Grosz, Christian Schad, and Jeanne Mammen among many others.

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