"It is hard to write about self-portraiture with its multiple concerns of ego, identity and representation without veering into the impenetrable abstract," wrote Serena Davies in the Daily Telegraph, reviewing A Face to the World.
But finally it's less ambitious than that: more like a lark, a small-scale domestic flight that returns the director, inevitably, to his favourite, hedonistic concerns of sexual identity and sexual transgression.
Since all these claims concern matters of identity and constitution, they too are necessary if true.
American playwright, screenwriter, and librettist whose work, by his own account, concerns the fluidity of identity.
A different tone is heard from Israeli Arab writers, as their concerns involve issues of identity and of lives filled with contradictions.
But Auster's fictional concerns — the contingency of identity, the nihilism of urban living, the clarities of asceticism — have remained steadfast, even as the postmodern toolbox has grown more elaborate, demanding greater semantic complexity of its users than ever before.
If events are indeed particulars then an important question concerns the conditions of identity for events.
The second puzzle concerns the Law of Identity as it operates in (so-called) opaque contexts.
Like the show itself, her piece is concerned with questions of identity in a digital age.
From the 1980s, younger artists (along with some of the earlier generation) began to produce a body of art concerned with problems of identity, conflict, and place.
