Many
writers and artist struggle with censorship from various sources.
Not exact matches
But most of all, like many other
writers and artists with whom I've spoken, I'm
struggling a bit to process what's happening.
The Disaster
Artist depicts how
writer / director / producer / actor Tommy Wiseau teamed up with
struggling actor Greg Sestero to make The Room
and while so much of what happens is hilarious, the film still acknowledges Wiseau's pain, passion
and triumph of sorts.
The premise of «Spaced» is almost ridiculously simple: Two twentysomething slackers, Tim Bisley (Simon Pegg), a
struggling comic book
artist,
and Daisy Steiner (Jessica Hynes), a
writer who seems unable to write, are both in need of housing.
I chose topics related to writing, publishing
and book promotion because I was meeting (
and continue to meet) so many hopeful
and struggling authors at book festivals,
writers conferences, writing workshops and through SPAWN (Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Ne
writers conferences, writing workshops
and through SPAWN (Small Publishers,
Artists and Writers Ne
Writers Network).
I agree with amberb, women are still
struggling for recognition as
artists, even as
writers, still
struggling to be taken seriously,
and still
struggling with social expectations that make it harder to follow a career without experiencing conflicts men don't face, for the most part, unless they choose to participate equally in raising a family.
I made a video review for Cassandra Arnold
and it's worth sharing, because she's both
and artist and a
writer,
and she's
struggling to get visibility on both or figure out how to sell her poetry books
and short stories.
The installation features a strong female protagonist named Cassandra, a figure of Greek mythology whose prophecies — first gifted
and later cursed by the spurned Apollo — were disbelieved by the fated Agamemnon;
and is inspired by East German
writer and critic Christa Wolf's 1984 novel Cassandra, about a
struggling female
artist and visionary.
Drawing upon recent contemporary fiction, curators Tom Eccles
and Amy Zion (both Bard College, New York) have invited
writers, poets,
and artists to investigate the psychological, linguistic, physical
and social conditions that underpin the daily
struggles of individual lives.
The birth of InIVA, though tied to the above international impetus
and the more fraught,
and sometimes transgressive territory of identity politics — embodied a year earlier in the 1993 Whitney Biennial — was also the culmination of a more national
struggle for representation amongst a cadre of pioneering non-white British
artists,
writers and intellectuals.
Incomplete,
and therefore only open to a partial reading or misunderstanding, the novel is an entryway into Liam Gillick's exhibition
and practice; its final point also open to interpretation as a self - deprecating, comedic reflection on the archetypal
struggles of all
artists,
writers, filmmakers, poets,
and others.
During this period African American
writers, performing
artists,
and visual
artists made black culture
and the political
struggles of black peoples worldwide their raison d'être.
Drawing inspiration from Langston Hughes» influential 1926 essay, «The Negro
Artist and the Racial Mountain,» Kerry James Marshall recalls the essay's famous introduction, in which Hughes describes the
struggle of a fellow African American
writer.