Particularly striking is the unplanned conjunction between Siskind's "Chicago 10" (1948), a figurative evocation from a wall, and de Kooning's small, equally figurative scribbly charcoal, "Untitled" (1972).
He is offering a hefty program that includes the Mendelssohn "Variations Serieuses," Schoenberg's "Drei Klavierstuke," Beethoven's Sonata No. 30 (Op. 109), Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2 and the "Evocation" from Albeniz's "Iberia".
They might be rigorously abstract but they're also full of real-life evocations, from dream furniture and robotic skeletons to daddy longlegs petrified in their nervy flittering.
Unchecked, only then, are the evocations from politicians, military leaders and diplomats as they wring new meanings from it all – about mateship, national character, resilience, sacrifice the "fallen", lost and "spirit".
It's time, because on the eve of a two-month long federal election campaign, we're about to be subject to all manner of evocations from public figures about their advancement of the national interest and their love of their country.
Expression must be distinguished from evocation.
Mr. Jackson had his own hangups, addressing the standard "My Shining Hour" with a rote evocation of John Coltrane from the late-'50s, when he recorded the tune.
In the Iler case, what would have been a minor item on the police blotter turned into headlines, stakeouts and an evocation of sympathy from the mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Moorcock also wrote mainstream novels such as Mother London (1988), an impressionistic evocation of London from the Blitz to the 1980s, and the Pyat Quartet, a fictional history of the 20th century consisting of Byzantium Endures (1981), The Laughter of Carthage (1984), Jerusalem Commands (1992), and The Vengeance of Rome (2006).
The evocation of heroism from collective memory organized in the tiger-slaying narrative consolidates positive public perception of the party's determination.
It can move from sumptuous evocation to solo articulation.
