The album is a tour-de-force compendium of the graphic possibilities the landscape genre offers and of the qualities that made Shitao so gripping: sensationally outré brushwork, narrative verve, a ready command of art history and a symphonic sensibility, all seen in the way he unites the 12 images (the full album has a total of 22) through the play of empty, unpainted space in each.
The most striking was Così Parlò Baldassare, a solo tour de force that is virtually a compendium of 300 years of vocal techniques; the most mysterious an early Elegia, composed in memory of Anne Frank, which atomises its text (anonymous apparently, though the name of the author might have been another omission from the sloppily assembled programme) and embeds it in etiolated instrumental details.
And the 40-minute work that follows is a physical tour de force as the couple perform an anthropological compendium of trance or ritual dances.
Overweight and ugly, Fry is a compendium of society's darkest forces.
The female star in "Country Strong," by contrast, is a compendium of stereotypes about women forced to choose between career and love (guess which wins), while keeping an eye on the younger competition (here a singer nicely played by Leighton Meester).
To enshrine its position as a driving force in contemporary street culture, FUCT recently just released a beautiful compendium published by Rizzoli Publications.
He was the editor of a special armed forces edition of Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena," a compendium of speeches, letters and essays, and a history of his adopted church in "Oyster Bay: How Firm a Foundation: The Anglican Church in Oyster Bay, New York and Colonial America" (Oyster Bay: Christ Church, 2004).
As part of their Follow Me series, which examines digital phenomena, Paris-based publishing house Jean Boîte joined forces with New York-based collective DIS and put together a compendium of #artselfies taken from social media outlets. .
As part of their Follow Me series that examines digital phenomena, Paris-based publishing house Jean Boite joined forces with New York-based collective DIS and have put together a compendium of #artselfies taken from social media outlets. .
Their book is a potent compendium of humorous and shrewd personal anecdotes, dedicated to the proposition that niceness is "a powerful force," which "can literally save your life".
