But Aw's purpose, after devoting the first third of the novel to the vitriolic posthumous account outlined above, is to spend the rest of the book devising a complex, contradictory case for the rehabilitation of Johnny Lim.
A few years later, now more a devotee of John Berger's Ways of Seeing (a TV series and book devised in hostile reaction to Civilisation), I began to feel decidedly uncomfortable with Clark's patrician self-confidence and the "great man" approach to art history – one damn genius after the next – that ran through the series.
Open-book managers devise scorecards and other tools that show staff how their individual efforts contribute to the bottom line.
In "The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre," which Hoggett and Graham published in 2009, they reminisce tenderly about sets that collapsed in the middle of performances, falling on the actors' feet.
As they acknowledge in the Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre (first published in 2009 and still a terrifically useful primer for anyone setting out to make devised theatre), Graham and Hoggett discovered what they liked through trial and error and by "finding out what we didn't like".
The Way Back Home Successful children's operas are rarities, but English National Opera's latest venture, based on Oliver Jeffers's enchanting book and devised by Katie Mitchell and Vicki Mortimer with music by Joanna Lee, looks to have more going for it than most.
Then there are the game shows, watched on television by audiences even larger than those for films and manga books, and devised to expose their willing participants to humiliation bordering on sadism.Mr Fukasaku's contribution to Japan's carnival of cruelty was a series of extraordinary films made over a period of 40 years.
As one of the most successful graphic designers in early 20th-century Britain, or "commercial artists" as they were then called, Kauffer designed stage sets, illustrated books and devised a suitably spooky opening title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 silent thriller "The Lodger".
To keep the meetings fun, the moms devise book-related meals and projects (when the group read "Holes," by Louis Sachar, says Arlene Carlucci, "all the food had holes -- Swiss cheese, doughnuts, bagels").
Attempting to emulate the Israeli (and former Picture Post) photographer, Tim Gidal - with whom he had an unfulfilled project for a book on Jerusalem - Osman would first acquire everything available in a field, devise a book, then sell the collection for a price inflated by the revised interest he had created.
