Feeling others’ pain - Students at Lolo School imagine the emotions of persecuted people and speak for them Apr 1, 2008
Students also created pieces of narrative art using mixed media to attempt to reflect the depths of racist actions as well as the hope for a time without human rights violations. The groups of marginalized people consisted of Japanese-Americans, Native Americans, Jewish-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, women, Arab-Americans and black Americans. (Missoulian, MT)
The art of the memoir: more than an exercise in navel-gazing Mar 22, 2008
"Memoir is a narrative art," Birkerts writes, "but through its careful manipulation of vantage point it simulates the subjective sense of experience apprehended through memory and the corrective actions of hindsight. In other words it gives artistic form to what is the main business of our ongoing inner life.". Birkerts is as incisive a literary analyst as he is eloquent a literary essayist. (Boston Globe)
The Secret Mainstream Feb 1, 2007
The morality of all narrative art, whether fictional or fact-based, hinges upon knowing when the additives one injects into representation begin to poison rather than fortify the narrative knowing, in other words, what to include and what to leave out. Every artist will judge differently, but these are judgments that must be made, and they implicate even such elementary decisions as choosing where to begin telling a story. (Harper's Magazine)
Narrative nailed dead Dec 22, 2006
I remember watching Caryl Churchill's play Top Girls and experiencing that delirium of uncertainty that great narrative art induces. What about the early Wim Wenders films which weave around their narrative core releasing us to enjoy time and space for itself. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Robert Altman: A rogue cinematic player steeped in the art of ambiguity Nov 22, 2006
In narrative art, nothing is more artificial than an ending - life, after all, does go on - and Altman's endings often serve two purposes. They bring the artifice to a dazzling pitch of virtuosity while exposing it as a glorious sham. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Confined to Cairo, Mahfouz wrote universal literature Sep 17, 2006
The academy declared that Mahfouz won for creating "an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind.". Yes, precisely. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Arts Walking the walk Jun 28, 2006
I consciously create narrative art that gently challenges the viewer to read between the lines, to fill in the blanks, Pujol concludes. Hear that, Sister Stephen Jane. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Techno thriller Apr 4, 2006
Narrative art must continue to map and process the world, and now that the world has become-significantly-tuned to the constant pulsations of information, now that reality is gaining at the level of data as it sacrifices material definition, we look to novels to key us in. Whether active incorporation of the Internet is a new next step-whether it can take us anywhere beyond the thrills of techno-paranoia-remains to be seen. (Boston Globe)
