Those wondering how to record such events will no doubt watch The Act of Killing, but I hope they will also look at less hyped, more modestly conceived depictions of mass murder.
For him it was lived history, an organic phenomenon, and he conceived his depiction of it that way.
Last year, a statue in the north-east town of Samalut attracted public scorn for its ill-conceived depiction of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, which quickly earned the nickname "Frankenstein".
Critics and viewers protest the most overt, exploitative nonsense, but the industry churns out so many predictable, poorly conceived and lazy depictions of sex and sexual assault that it's not possible nor advisable to get angry every single time something demeaning, insulting or dumb gets on the air.
Double Fine is committed to total transparency with this project, ensuring it is one of the most honest depictions of game development ever conceived".
In today's column let's at least entertain the idea that the New Yorker and satirical magazines like Charlie Hebdo, if and when they cross the line with profane depictions of the Deity--as conceived by devout, ethical people in the great faith communities--help breed cynicism, relativism, or pseudo-tolerance to the point that being in awe of the "Sacred Other" is forgotten.
Ninja Theory's rendition of the classic Chinese story Journey to the West is set on one of the most luscious depictions of a post-apocalyptic Earth ever conceived.
It is, I believe, the closest thing some of us have to vocation, an almost irrational commitment to the accurate, powerful depiction of what we've felt, seen, believed, conceived and imagined.
If the plot was indeed conceived seven years ago, as Mr. Bai asserted, it seems prescient, both in its depiction of a united North and South Korea and in its convolutedness.
But Kippenberger conceived them in thematic series (portraits of scientists, portraits of Frank Sinatra, depictions of war etc)., and they combine conceptual audacity with a sovereign, fine-tuned formal control.
