Word: symbolistic
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...Jude” is a folk musician who has gone electric and gone to drugs. “Billy,” an older man living in peace and nature, has run far away from his past. And “Arthur Rimbaud,” a symbolist poet, grapples with questions about his work and its meaning in an angsty and ironic manner. Haynes’ innovative decision to use multiple actors to represent Dylan comprehensively depicts the well-known musician’s many dimensions. The audience must mentally readjust to every jarring transformation, forced to reconcile their...
...orderly in the trenches of Flanders. The Belgian front, where he suffered a severe nervous breakdown, would show him fractured form with a vengeance. Especially after the raw meat and blasted earth of the trenches, why care how you broke up goblets and cafe tables? Similarly, the Expressionist and Symbolist art of the prewar era, with its yearning toward transcendence, seemed now like an evasion of the duty to show the age its true, terrifying face...
...champion of symbolist, non-realistic design, Craig was one of the foremost theatrical designers of the early twentieth century. Born in 1872 to English actress Ellen Terry and architect Edward Godwin, Craig performed with his mother on stage in his youth but ultimately found theatrical design to be his true passion...
...Gumbel), canned music does not cry out to heaven for vengeance. But small evils---the evils of banality--- also need attention, especially when they become universal. Canned music is what you expect to hear when you die and go to hell. "De la musique, avant toute chose," advised the symbolist poet Paul Verlaine. I'll give you de la musique: In one ear, in the other...
...that Barney is serious about bees morphing into male bodies oozing sexually with honey; about a seance medium whose face is pierced with rivets. But that is one of the most intriguing things about him: in an age of slick ironists cool beyond belief, Barney is a dead-earnest symbolist plummeting through the rabbit hole of his own nutty logic. You may not get everything that you see. And certainly you may not enjoy it. But it fascinates all the way down...