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...artist-author carries us back to Old Virginny with a dual-media performance: 38 paintings of bygone railroads and Shenandoah Valley townscapes juxtaposed with a 50-page story about the love affair between Anna, an enigmatic artist, and Russell, a photographer and train buff. The meticulous paintings depict Russell's old photographs, complete with creases and torn edges. The text is the reminiscence of an apocryphal ex-newspaperman whose attempt to reconstruct a forgotten romance resurrects family secrets and American history. This is an original example of Proust's observation that "the memory of a particular image is but regret...
According to Hall, the volumes are supposed to depict the Biblical Old and New Testaments and the overturned Book of Life, which symbolizes the limits of human knowledge...
...artists argued that as an artistic form, rap serves to depict the realities of Black urban daily life...
Woolf, considered one of the greatest 20th-century English novelists, used the stream-of-consciousness technique to depict daily life...
Romance novels, for those who've never ventured beyond their metallic-relief covers, depict a life unknowable to most women. It is a life in which bemuscled, race-car-driving aristocrats pursue glamorous heroines and in which couples with little need for frequent-flyer mileage cavort from grand Euro- capital to grand Euro-capital, proving that love blossoms best in those cities where a branch of Cartier may be found...