Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture.
His book Allegories of Time and Space: Visualizing Japanese Cultural Identity through Architecture and Photography, which explores the role of the concept of tradition in the construction of cultural identity in Japanese architecture, photography, and popular culture from the 1940s to the 1990s, was published by University of Hawai'i Press in early 2015.
They commissioned high-toned allegories ("The Triumph of Time and Disillusionment") or explicitly churchly fare ("The Martyrdom of St. Catherine," "Oratorio on the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ") rather than secular frivolities.
The soccer field itself, he has written, is an allegory of space and time.
In the spirit of these legendary epics, "Gladiator" is an allegory of its own time.
While "A Disused Shed" has always been read in the light of Northern Ireland's Troubles, there is little consensus as to what it might be saying on that subject, once we apply critical "determination" that it should deliver a translatable allegory of its dark times.
The novel could be an allegory of sleep, a phenomenology of time, or a cinematic metafiction.
Likewise, I sketched the setting of my most recent book, Lights Out in Wonderland, an allegory of late capitalism, when times were booming; but it was clear, once banks started giving loans to people without incomes, that the pennies were ready to fall.
And I can't get enough of "Rear-View, Open Air Theater" (2005), at Goodman: a decrepit but noble old wooden structure, bearing signs of emergency repair and sorely in need of more, that becomes a moving allegory of cultural aspiration besieged by callous time.
Or maybe it's just the perfect allegory for our time.
Like "Life of Pi," the new book is an allegory — this time about the Holocaust — involving animals.
