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...Accordingly, the album is a loose collection of tracks that seem to be the musical equivalent of an artist's sketchbook--it contains an array of self-contained and varying ideas--rather than a fully flushed-out concept album. Hutchence was obviously allowed significant creative license to experiment with different textures, because there are scarcely two tracks that sound similar, which is hardly a drawback. Heavily distorted guitars are on assault on the opening track "Let Me Show You," but are immediately contrasted with ethereal and richly textured multi-layered sonics on the ballad "Possibilities." Radio ready hits jostle...
...incestuous, tributes to the anonymous heroes who toiled on Disney cartoons. Canemaker's Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists is a sumptuous introduction to the craftsfolk whose paintings suggested a mood and design for Disney directors. Hyperion has also begun a sketchbook series of drawings from its early works; the first is a beguiling Bambi. In concert these volumes illuminate the unseen artistry that helps create movie magic...
...react to this apocalyptic rubble of a '50s childhood--or to the sexual atrocities limned in Crumb's work? With the only two reactions that modern life demands: a laugh or a scream. The title on one page of a Crumb sketchbook reads, "Words Fail Me (Pictures Aren't Much Better)." But pictures allow Crumb to tell his own truth. To him, as to any artist who ascends deep into the bizarre, his work looks like reality. With care and wit, he draws his own demons and goddesses. One thing he never draws is conclusions. That is for the viewer...
Then there's Nanni Moretti, who displays a more genial egotism. Though the Italian actor-writer-director is in every scene of Caro Diario (Dear Diary) -- an episodic film that is the equivalent of an artist's sketchbook -- his is a skeptical, almost modest form of auteur hubris...
...title of his brief new work, Field Notes (Knopf; 159 pages; $20), evokes science, but what Lopez offers instead are a dozen fictional sketches from his staked-out territory at the edge of the natural world. The stories are slight, and the term note suggests sketchbook impressions, perhaps, for canvases that might someday be painted. Thus slyly discounted by their author, these spare narrations carry surprising weight. One story, Teal Creek, is nothing more than a teenager's recollection of coming instinctively to respect a rural hermit's solitude. Although Lopez is known for wavering dangerously close to poetic prose...