Sentence examples for imaginary encyclopedia from inspiring English sources
All were inspired by the "Codex Seraphinianus," the imaginary encyclopedia written and drawn in the 1970's by the Italian artist and architect Luigi Serafini.
This show is the third that Decouflé has based on the "Codex Seraphinianus" (1981), an imaginary encyclopedia by the Italian naturalist and artist Luigi Serafini, in which plants and animals are shown melting and morphing into other things.
A cartoon image of a pile of woolly quadrupeds made for an imaginary, encyclopedia-size tome about how to not be racist is captioned, "When counting sheep at night, please be sure they aren't all white".
That book, from the mid-1990s, is an encyclopedia of imaginary writers of extreme right-wing political sympathies, clearly reflecting the strong influence that Jorge Luis Borges and his fondness for apocrypha exerted on Mr. Bolaño.
Is it courageous to read Plato during a military coup or is it something else? "Nazi Literature in the Americas," a wicked, invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives.
The immediate springboard for this work is the "Codex Seraphinanus: A Visual Encyclopedia of an Imaginary Universe" (1981), an illustrated anthology of fantasy beasts and machines by Luigi Serafini, an Italian artist and naturalist.
Lucid Dream projects the evolution of a trio of chromatic, otherworldly hybridized creatures, acting as a digitized encyclopedia of an imaginary world.
None of the stories is more haunting than "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", in which an imaginary world, portrayed in a mysterious encyclopedia, disrupts and disintegrates the world that we take to be real.
