Complicated narratives are unpopular, says Jim Prior, CEO of Lambie-Nairn and Partners.
Their painstaking observation and their ability to handle complicated narratives is better seen in their drawings and prints.
Annette Grant writes that Gregory Crewdson's images "suggest complicated narratives, as if a whole movie were being condensed into one shot" ["Lights, Camera, Stand Really Still," May 30].
Indeed, storytelling itself remains a central concern in the author's work, in both his taste for willfully complicated narratives and his philosophical preoccupation with the ways in which subjectivity acts as a distorting prism for our apprehension of the world.
But the Carracci powers of observation and ability to handle complicated narratives is best seen in their drawings and prints, which range from Annibale's charmingly intimate ink with wash, "Domestic Scene" to Ludovico's ambitious "Last Communion of St. Jerome," a tightly composed altarpiece proposal.
But the Carracci powers of observation and ability to handle complicated narratives is best seen in their drawings and prints, which range from Annibale's charmingly intimate ink with wash, "A Domestic Scene" (probably early 1580's), in which a mother warms her child's nightgown before a fire, to Ludovico's ambitious "Last Communion of St. Jerome" (no date), a tightly composed altarpiece proposal.
Films such as "Snowden," however, distill complicated narratives and examine pivotal events and personalities that shape our world.
In earlier novels in the series, Goonan found ways to advance her vastly complicated narrative through characters whose personal stories elicited either admiration or sympathy, sometimes both.
Beyoncé was also clearly seeking to complicate the narratives around more than just infidelity or her relationship with Jay Z.
In both shows, the action moves between the human world and a fantasy realm, and both make extensive use of flashbacks to complicate their narratives and suggest that there's more going on than there really is.
