The historians who addressed themselves to those immense subjects, with their myriad ramifications, often composed monumental works of a synthetical character, such as those of Arnold Toynbee or Henri Pirenne, but they also cultivated the essay.
The processing of iron from its ores, and the making of steel are immense subjects, complicated by environmental considerations and the availability of scrap.
Fela Kuti is an immense subject, a bottomless character.
But on the art front, at least, it hardly exhausts its immense subject; how could it?
Among other things, the show demonstrates how one artist can, over decades, approach an immense subject from many angles.
It is an immense subject that can feel unduly cramped, its surfaces sometimes skimmed, in the work's 35-minute span.
Depending on your capacity for information saturation, "We Could Have Invited Everyone" offers either total immersion in an immense subject -- micronations -- or merely the tip of the iceberg.
Abjuring largeness and portentous brushwork as before, these works tackle more directly the immense subject of creativity itself and diagram it in ways both pointedly humorous and expansive.
When her first collection, "Interior with Sudden Joy," was published in 1999, the magazine called it a "heady, infectious celebration of erotic life" whose "immense subject is the nature of desire: satisfied, thwarted, engorged, playful, and possessive".
Burdened by a big title that broadcasts a level of ambition and comprehensiveness it does not fulfill, this show arbitrarily skips across the surface of an immense subject while suffering from too much agenda, too little research and inappropriate architecture.
