Sketches capture mastery from centuries ago Oct 1, 2009
"I particularly like the 'Allegory of Prudence, c. 1550-1600' piece because we don't know who created it," Smith said. "You would have to examine the iconography, imagery and technique of the drawing to solve the mystery of the creator.". (Daily Collegian, PA)
‘Eastwick’ mixes novelistic and movie predecessors with New England witchcraft history Sep 23, 2009
Eastwick is allegory and knows it, so it can be plausibly silly and over-the-top, and hint at real issues - women in the workplace, gender politics at home - without trying too hard. Or maybe it s just that small New England towns are more naturally dark and intriguing than anywhere-America suburban streets. (Boston Globe)
Are we losing our religion? Sep 23, 2009
See Hitler with his rhino hide bull whip he carried to emulate Christ, who used the whip to drive the Jews and money lenders from the temple, his favorite allegory he used to commit genocide. I do not come in peace but with a sword, his second favorite. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Kim Stanley Robinson on the importance of science fiction Sep 17, 2009
Others venture into the depths of distant space and time, creating a new space opera that is not only sophisticated entertainment, but also usually a surreal allegory for the choices we have to make as a civilisation and a species. Some even explore what I think is the hardest zone of all (which is why I asked the writers here to give it a go) - the time about a century from now, when our growing capabilities will be confronted by immense dangers, creating an unstable and unpredictable future. (Harper's Magazine)
* Hardcover: UK: Biographer flinches at the dark side of William Golding Sep 6, 2009
My childhood reading life began, so far as I can recall, with R.M. Ballantynes naively imperialist story The Coral Island; my innocence came to an end when I opened Lord of the Flies, which warps Ballantynes tale into an allegory about the wickedness of our species and its rightful ejection from the happy garden. The novel, as the critic Lionel Trilling said, marked a mutation in culture: God may have died, but the Devil was flourishing, especially in Englands elite public schools. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
VIPs in Basel take a summer holiday Sep 3, 2009
The exhibition starts with a light box called Allegory of Folly by Canadian artist Rodney Graham. Sitting on a mechanical horse once used to train jockeys is a man, the artist himself, dressed in old fashioned clothing: a coat with fur trim. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Turner's Homage to Trains of Great ... Jul 30, 2009
Rain, Steam and Speed is arguably not only a document, but primarily an allegory on the forces of nature. Drawing on the Baroque allegorical tradition which Turner knew so well and the emotive scumbling brushwork of Rembrandt, whom Turner admired deeply, the artist was able to depict the impression of speed and movement. (Suite101.com)
Photographers' work separated by time - and visual style Jul 24, 2009
Both traffic in allegory and an air of otherworldliness. Both try, in a sense, to visualize the eternal. (Boston Globe)
Company One to stage ‘After the Quake’ Jul 17, 2009
In Honey Pie, a love triangle plays out over decades, and a man concocts an allegory to comfort a little girl in the wake of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. In Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, well. (Boston Globe)
Art.view: Old Masters and maestros Jun 21, 2009
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, was still on the throne (he died in 1647), and the painting, An Allegory of Peace and Plenty , celebrates the Dutch conquest of Brazil. The three youngsters are Frederick Henry s children, Prince Willem and the little princesses, Louise Henriette and Henriette Amalia. (The Economist)
ATHICA exhibit all about the journey Jun 18, 2009
Its title is both a humorous rebuttal of the insinuation that two men at sea could become sexually involved, and a reference to Plato's allegory of the cave, which describes perception as watching shadows on the wall. After close to 70 hours in an inflatable raft with a guy he's never even gone camping with, Westfall says it's hard to predict what sort of mood he'll be in at the show's opening Saturday night, when people will start coming in and talking to them. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Wednesday, June 03, 2009, Ron Silliman, Sillimans Blog Jun 4, 2009
The antithesis of allegory here would appear to be mastery ... Both projects Conceptualisms poses it as a scale, upper limit allegory (Goldsmith), lower limit baroque (flarf) are predicated on unreadability as a new index of opacity in the work of art. (Harper's Magazine)
INTERVIEW: Brett Dennen's journey of 'Hope' Jun 1, 2009
TDM: Your latest album, "Hope for the Hopeless," is that sort of an allegory for things that are happening in the world today. BD: Yeah, it is an allegory of things that are happening today but it's also like a truth about myself ... And maybe it's not an allegory of what's happening, you know. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
David Hannah, William Tucker: pairing of ideas May 31, 2009
Art historians have interpreted Titian's picture as an allegory of the artistic life, of the suffering destined for all who fancy that their own work competes with increate reality ... An allegory of the senses also lies embedded in Titian's painting and Hannah seems bent on excavating it for his own purposes. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
DVDs you should have seen: Bunuel, Hitchcock and more May 21, 2009
A bleak social satire from 1962 that begins as chattering-class melodrama and then descends into apocalyptic allegory when its dinner-party guests (among them Mexican starlet Silvia Pinal) find themselves inexplicably unable to leave the drawing room, "Exterminating Angel" sometimes feels like an unfriendly first draft of Buuel's masterpiece, "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie." Its gorgeous black-and-white images are meticulously crafted by cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, who understood... (Salon)
Stephen and Timothy Quay to receive Coolidge Award May 3, 2009
Even as children, Stephen says, they were drawn to the covert allegory of Kafka and Robert Walser, whose time in a mental ward inspired the Quays' feature "Institute Benjamenta.". "It was a much more sophisticated language which had to be really read," he says. (Boston Globe)
Crawling into little hearts Apr 11, 2009
It has been described as an allegory of both Christianity and capitalism. "Right after the Wall fell, I was signing books in the former East Germany and was invited by a group of young librarians to have lunch with them. One said the caterpillar is capitalist, he eats into every food one little bit and then the food rots away. Wasteful capitalist. Interesting. I think that if you're indoctrinated, that's how you will see it.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Howard the Duck Isn't as Bad as You Remember. It's Worse. Apr 8, 2009
Marvel handed Howard over to other writers as Gerber waged a public battle for control, at one point even launching a thinly veiled allegory called Destroyer Duck with artist Jack Kirby, who was engaged in his own struggle with Marvel at the time. But by 1986, Gerber and Marvel had come to terms, a settlement kept private but apparently partly tied up with the development of a sure-to-be-blockbuster film produced by high-profile fan George Lucas. (Slate)
Inside Politics Weekend: The Obama brand Apr 5, 2009
Mr. Tantillo praised that allegory. "Now this was Roosevelt, the master of lowering expectations while instilling hope. President Obama should apply his ship example to his presidency. A presidential brand can go in either a good or bad direction. It does this gradually, mistakes or triumphs gradually mounting up. If the negatives are not kept firmly in check from the beginning, a toxic image can be created that might never be erased.". (Insight on the News)
Tales warn kids about Internet use Mar 16, 2009
Matalonis wrote a family-friendly allegory using barnyard animals to explain the danger to kids without scaring them, talking down to them or using a lot of statistics they wouldn;t understand. She said she specifically chose the format of the ;The Fox Behind the Chatterbox; to look more like a chapter book. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Australian film is alive and kicking goals Feb 24, 2009
But asked about the interest in allegorical storytelling so evident in his films, Thornton asks for an explanation of allegory. In the documentary Solo, directors Jennifer Peedom and David Michod have assembled footage shot by adventurer Andrew McAuley's failed attempt to cross the Tasman in a kayak in 2007 with painfully raw interviews with his widow and friends. (The Age)
Jill Lepore: The day the newspaper died. Feb 8, 2009
In one allegory published during the Stamp Act crisis, a tearful LIBERTY cries to her dying brother, GAZETTE, Unless thou revivest quickly, I shall also perish with thee. In our Lives we were not divided; in our Deaths we shall not be separated. (New Yorker)
