The most
poignant question from yesterday was from Jennifer, who asked regarding the topic of fear:
Not exact matches
Simply left with the
poignant outline of the missing poppy, hung
from floor to ceiling and overhead, Parker's exceptionally well - received, emotionally charged tribute to fallen soldiers asks a literal
question: where have all the flowers gone?
As Satrapi adjusts to a new culture and living away
from her parents, she faces
poignant questions about her identity.
Read more >> A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Algonquin, $ 22.95, 304 pages In her humorous and
poignant memoir of a wedding and an earthquake in the Dominican Republic, novelist Julia Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) attempts to answer this
question as she tells the tale of a young worker on her coffee plantation, Piti, and his efforts to make a life by traveling
from his home in Haiti to work in the neighboring country.
Exploring how major art trends have reflected the reality increasingly appearing as media construct, the show presents a range of works
from Alex Katz's striking realism and Eric Fischl's psychologically charged studies of a confused middle class to Cindy Sherman «s
poignant self - portraits to Vanessa Beecroft's performances that
question body ideals.
Although these images enter a line of
questioning that came to define much artistic output
from New York during the late 1970's — they are uniquely tinged with a
poignant sense of nostalgia, but with an equally disquieting sense of dislocation.