It was a fascination with the technical process of showbusiness, more than anything.
Allen's fascination with murder is both technical — he wants to know how it's done — and moral.
This lavishly illustrated compendium of miniature art explores our fascination with "the outer limits of visual perception and technical precision".
From Citizen Science's Breaking Bad-inspired Lego playset, to Kendall Murray's dreamworlds encased in metal compacts, the showcase focuses on our "fascination with all things small," and delves into the technical challenges of crafting such compact worlds.
With its cascade of Spanish dances and difficult technical passages, "Paquita" embodied Romantic ballet's fascination with Spanish dancing and its vogue for Gypsy heroines.
Artists in this period, says curator Greg Sullivan, were inspired both by technical innovation and by a general societal fascination with the past, prompted in part by archaeological finds in Egypt and Greece.
His fascination with the smallest details (essential to a successful race team, as we learn), combined with his ability to translate technical concepts, produces an easily readable narrative.
Fascination with the work lingers.
Why this fascination with death?
Why this fascination with animals?
