Sentences with phrase «of fictive»

John Gardner, famed writing professor and novelist, instructs us to strive for continuity of the fictive dream in our writing, which is to say, the dream that compels your reader to get completely absorbed, so that everything else around you falls away.

He arrived in Manhattan after two enviable years in Paris, where he parlayed the GI Bill into training at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (a real - life version of the fictive artist in John Dos Passos's «Three Soldiers» who stays in Paris after World War I to learn to paint).

Also on display is an «authorized copy» of Calling All Agents: Transmission, Death, Technology, General Secretary's Report to the International Necronautical Society (2011), a document of the fictive society founded by Tom McCarthy in 1999.

The rigorous construction of the fictive, nature / culture - space in which McGinley's models are photographed contrasts with the spontaneity of movement, accident and, sometimes, ethereal effects.

The widely traveled artist Martin Kippenberger ultimately made drawings on hotel stationary his hallmark and thus created a kind of fictive auto - geography.

Vivid and geometrically bold, Mudaulane's mixed - media works produce layers of fictive and historical narratives via a plethora of mythology, theology and quotidian motifs.

Paul Noble has been nominated for his exhibition at Gagosian, which presented intricate and Escherian depictions of the fictive world «Nobson Newtown» — a disconcerting world, in which classical topography is fused with cartoonish iconography, and all is a-topsy-turvy — where a walled compound balustraded by shards of broken glass can be labelled «Heaven», and a parallel area encased in ornate ironmongery labelled «Hell».

Real Remnants of Fictive Wars (Part V) is a slow film of fire extinguisher smoke engulfing a romantic landscape, as a violent and mesmerizingly beautiful act.

This photographer's exploration of fictive utopias and the dreams of the itinerant gives us pictures of empty freight trains rolling through mountain landscapes, hobo musicians, and wizened prospectors still looking to strike it rich.

The widely traveled artist Martin Kippenberger ultimately made drawings on hotel stationary his hallmark, producing a kind of fictive auto - geography.

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.

It is an extension of the fictive space into our physical space.

These works are reminiscent of the fictive nature of art and, in tandem, the taboo nature of experiencing genuine emotion in today's culture.

I like unusual statements that take the form of fictive narratives (I've written some myself), but they aren't necessarily an indication that the exhibitions will be equally unconventional.

The documentary images of the fictive person in the Roberta Breitmore Series (1974 to 1978) were my introduction to the work of Hershman Leeson.

Back then, this same Mimiko proved his nemesis by playing the primordial card, of some fictive foreign marauders coming to corner the Ondo treasury, should Akeredolu win.

The only significance and value which obtain anywhere are in the mind's discernment of these fictive qualities in its own manufactured models....

Both reflect a devaluation of the fictive but realistic «reality» offered by modern literature.

Not exact matches

The volume is also divided into two separate stories, set a century apart: a long first - person narrative by a Handmaid in Gilead is followed by «Historical Notes on «The Handmaid's Tale,»» a fictive academic commentary by the urbane male editor of the anonymous woman's tapes discovered in the late 21st century, decades after Gilead's fall.

In that comment Rushdie reveals that he is much closer to gut - level Islam than the fictive distance of a dream might indicate.

The deliberate crudeness of Cranach's crucifix functionally resembles the strategy employed by modern newscasts when they show campaign commercials inside an obviously fictive TV set.

After all, Kees wrote a number of poems about a fictive alter ego under that pseudonym, an alter ego Astrue has described as merely some «mysterious, detached, urbane figure»:

Wahlberg's image of an elevated body of chairmen immediately succeeding Peter is therefore fictive.

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

This account assumes the accuracy of the case study that begins the book about Wiltshire.2 After a fictive introduction, the case study divides the plot into eight periods.

But extorting financial payoffs from fictive perpetrators of distant wrongs is but another wrong.

If one is to understand the fictive world of John Updike, his theological world view can not be ignored.

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«An example is a fictive portion of the February 2015 lecture by the then Candidate Buhari at Chatham House, London.

The children were then told that the adults didn't have time to distribute the rest of their stickers to other kids in a fictive class.

Its actors, its costume design, its music, and countless other facets of the film are drawn from all over the continent and its diaspora, in a science - fiction celebration of the imaginary country of Wakanda, a high - tech utopia that is a fictive manifestation of African potential unfettered by slavery and colonialism.

Pop Chart Lab is a treasure chest of beautifully designed posters covering a wide range of interests, from the evolution of video game controllers to fictive beers.

I argue that Black students» responsibilities to their mothers, fathers, and other extended and fictive kin create tradeoffs they must navigate as they try to juggle the demands of college with ongoing demands from family.

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.

I will continue to share the good, the bad, and the ugly of the indie author world right here on Fictive Universe.

- Neil Gaiman, from Reflections on Myth It is through fantasy that we have always sought to make sense of the world, not through reason... It is through the fictive projections of our imaginations based on personal experience that we have sought to grasp, explain, alter, and comment on reality.

I wanted to attempt what I believe the best historical writing — both scholarly and fictive — can do: shed light on the seed of a social problem that cripples its current society.

This exists outside of the usual Kingverse (Pennywise the Clown is referred to as fictive); add that to the atypical present - tense prose, and this feels pretty darn fresh.

In the traditional short story or novel, a fictive space is opened up that allows you the reader to disappear into the action, even to the point of forgetting you are reading.

- Publisher's Weekly «This exists outside of the usual Kingverse (Pennywise the Clown is referred to as fictive); add that to the atypical present - tense prose, and this feels pretty darn fresh.

• the overlap of the conventions that drive fictive fantasy (studio films) and conventions that drive event - derived information (news media)

Despite the apparently autobiographical details of her paintings, Lichtman is engaged in constructing a purely fictive space.

Very few biographies of actual or fictive artists seriously attempt to consider the artist's creative process in a nuanced way.

Yet while the premise of skying is European and Romantic, these pictures are fictive sketches (Ryan terms them «non places really»).

Ventura has developed his own inventive approach to narrative, blending two forms of storytelling — one inspired by historical events and the other entirely fictive — with a creative technical approach that has earned him widespread recognition.

Similar in spirit to Tomaselli's earlier work which referenced the relationship between the sub-culture of psychedelia and utopianism, these new paintings expand the dialogue into a fictive landscape where figures populate a frenzied, cosmic and other worldly universe.

Weaver is constructing a fictive history for the Black Bottom community using a variety of fake elements: handmade museum vitrines, handmade maps and documents of the community, various faux sculptures and textiles, as well as installation and audio components.

The exhibition also features a series of new works depicting scenes from a fictive documentary following Plumita Lunes Nuñes, an orphan undertaking an ancient Christian pilgrimage in an existential pursuit to find her long - lost parents.

His work examines the fictive distinctions of nature and culture dissolved in painting.

With Search Light, Hammond extends her use of the photographic medium, utilizing it to probe into fictive and imaginative realms.