Sentences with phrase «mythic narrative»

In the mythic narrative that has come to surround the artist, the filming represents the beginning of the end.

Though there is no indication that she saw its forms as having individual identities, such an idea of a mythic narrative may also be identified in Fallen Images.

The mythic narratives and genealogical accounts of Genesis, the symbolic geography of the Gospel narratives, and even the theological vocabulary of Paul offered opportunities for analyzing the patterns of binary opposition that structuralists argued were the key to the meaning of the texts.

The show's oil - on - canvas paintings from the late 1940s and 1950s demonstrate the wide reach of the New York School — works by Jack Jefferson, Deborah Remington, Ward Jackson, Louis Ribak, Lilly Fenichel, and Bea Mandelman — reprised here by the recent mythic narratives (2013) of Eugene Newmann.

Derived from the figure and mythic narratives, Hadzi's sculpture references antiquity and classical artifacts — abstracted anatomical forms, columnar and other architectural elements, helmets, weaponry and body armor function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.

Not exact matches

Excepting the fundamentalist denominations, Biblical theologians and scholars have long recognized the early primal narratives in the book of Genesis to be mythic in nature portraying collective humanity in its origins.

In fact, experience is inchoate even to the subject until it is captured first at the level of mythic expression, much of which is nonverbal, then in mythologies which cast myth into the form of narrative, then in fully conceptualized systems.

The third dimension is the narrative or mythic.

In the ordinary mythic - heroic narratives upon which Rowling relies, the hero rescues an innocent victim.

Rationalism and scientism (belief in the epistemological supremacy of reason and especially of scientific method) produced the conjecture, in some quarters at least, that the symbolic / mythic / poetic / narrative modes of expression employed by all the religions are perhaps nothing more than our own subjective projections or constructs, and not representations of an independent sacral reality.

In the traditional manner of mythic - heroic narrative, this setting is a lively, well - detailed physical place that nonetheless reverberates repeatedly to the moral and psychological dimensions of the hero's development.

It is these narrative traditions that provide the material for the symbolic and mythic expressions through which we as individuals come face to face with mystery.

Jim Jarmusch's seventh narrative feature, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, which I've seen three times, may be a failure, if only because most of its characters are never developed far enough beyond their mythic profiles to live independently of them.

by Walter Chaw The images in Niki Caro's second film, Whale Rider, are so heartbreakingly beautiful that at times the narrative diminishes its mythic gravity.

Written by Meg LeFauve, with her, Sohn, and others credited on story, The Good Dinosaur features the most mundane narrative of any Pixar film — mundane because it so blatantly aspires to mythic resonance.

The answer lies in George Lucas's mythic storytelling and the narrative momentum he manages to sustain throughout.

These stories take many forms, from driving narrative to lyrical reverie, at times evoking mythic overtones, and this variety, along with an unflinching confrontation with the conditions and consequences of childhood abuse, creates its own form of suspense - in what direction will this book take us next?

In a third - person plural narrative voice that perfectly embodies the brutal and wistful communities he portrays, Lee tells the mythic story of young, small, yet mighty Fan, a breath - held diver preternaturally at home among the farmed fish she tends to.

This ancient, mythic concept is central to the narrative of our game: a universal story told purely through imagery and sound.

Rogier understands that expressionistic painting is part of a larger trajectory or continuum, an unexhausted unfinished project expanding beyond the mythic, grand narratives of progress upon which it was initially predicated.

In her often mythic work, Schimert selects iconic figures - Ophelia, Sir Lancelot, Neil Armstrong, Nixon, and, for her MATRIX exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum, Oedipus - and merges their stories with her own in an abstractly narrative space composed of drawings, sculpture, wall drawings, and film.

Marshall reminds us that artists of color have historically endured a conditional access that reinforces the narrative of their own exclusion: «So it's like all of the black folks who achieve this sort of mythic status as artists are always people who were working as naives, untrained, kind of natural artists.»

WE DONE ALL WE COULD AND NONE OF IT»S GOOD is one of a handful of chapters in Hancock's ongoing narrative that follows the lives of «Mounds» and «Vegans» toiling in an ideological grudge match of mythic proportions.

Today Bull's art may be seen as an expressionist exploration, one that seeks to connect the mundane and quotidian to larger mythic and historical motifs, themes and narratives.

Juxtaposing illustrations of historical events with familiar contemporary images, Henricksen's work invites you to step into a shamanistic world of non-linear narrative and mythic time.

Steinkamp has given us the perfect take on the mythic «dream factory,» all gloss and no depth, with decoration unapologetically unmoored from narrative.

In the 1930s, at a time of upheaval and personal strife, Picasso began to create allusive narrative works ripe for Surrealist interpretation, infusing the theatrical combat of the corrida with mythic elements of antiquity.

These break up pages of poetic text, exploring the phenomenon of meaning - making through narrative fiction and the vague approximations of mythic archetypes.

Sometimes modeled figures perch in trees that grow out of the palm of a hand, adding a narrative, mythic dimension.