The collaboration between living and dead is so seamless that it becomes apparent that Morgan created a new cinematic "monage" form out of contextual necessity made urgent by the insistence of the art and a new century's technological innovation.
Typical too was the insistence of Picasso's art teacher father that his boy should master the knack of producing "likenesses", briskly and to order.
In the end, though, it is Hitler's insistence on the importance of art and his place in it -- as opposed to Churchill's amateur pursuits -- that give him the edge.
Indeed, this insistence on the representative dimension of art might appear old-fashioned, inasmuch as the more modern insistence on the autonomy of the artwork has marked most late 19th century aesthetic projects and their 20th century descendants.
Byatt has an almost hallucinatory gift for physical description, and there's something bracingly old-fashioned in her insistence that encounters with works of art can transform experience as powerfully as the making of them can deform the lives of their creators.
This was at the insistence of Lord Duveen, a crooked art dealer who made his money by shady dealings with the Nazis and who insisted in 1938 on scouring some of the friezes, permanently damaging them.
"Perelman taunted the defendants, daring them to sue him if they were not willing to accept his insistence on paying with unwanted works of art instead of cash," Mr. Gagosian asserts.
The key to Mr. Bolaño's work is an insistence that the writer must keep no scrim of art or craft between him and the brute reality of the world he lives in and addresses.
But they pursued their aesthetic interests like artists, with a refreshing disregard for the usual categories of art history and an absolute insistence on the primacy of personal response.
The physical act of making dumplings, the insistence that the art of previous generations must not be forgotten, your parents yelling at you to finish your food though this time it delightfully flips the script with the line, "There are poor people in America".
