Her obsession with creating a beverage as clear as a flawless diamond may well have been her most important achievement.
A morbid tale of unrequited obsession created in 1946, set with calculated irony to a Bach passacaglia and saturated with existential despair, this piece has always demanded star performances, which Rojo and Le Riche deliver.
This last piece has the look of the ritual artefact of Bickerton's tropical island obsession, creating a power object or fetish (as islanders do) with found objects (fish, flowers, beads) that is the more hypnotic for its solemn parody – silver vestal offering a hammerhead shark, coconuts in her Indonesian canoe.
A bigger problem is that there's not too much pushing against those compulsions on which our hero acts: although he's nicely self-aware about his desire for novelty and his need to be involved with some kind of puzzle to solve, the extent to which his obsessions create a withdrawal from life goes mostly unexamined.
He was so caught up in the obsessions created by his view of the world that the consensus belief around football that he will almost certainly receive no less than a four-game ban for his behaviour was a report veering to the side of leniency.
In her obsession with being happy, she creates a one-dimensional persona, which seen in the light of day, doesn't quite add up.
"I have a kind of sacred obsession to create.
In her boldly argued study of American modernism, Corn sees such borrowings as typical of American artists in search of a "usable past". In looking for the roots of the American obsession to create an artistic tradition of its own -- what Georgia O'Keeffe called "the great American thing" -- Corn zeroes in on such "machine-age modernists" of the 20's as Demuth and Charles Sheeler.
In looking for the roots of the American obsession to create an artistic tradition of its own -- what Georgia O'Keeffe called "the great American thing" -- Corn zeroes in on such "machine-age modernists" of the 20's as Demuth and Charles Sheeler.
I have to tell you they are mystified by our obsession to create this giant barrier between our countries.
no, make that an obsession, to create impossible crimes, then figure out ways of carrying them off.
