For a libretto, Sellars turned to a classmate, the poet Alice Goodman... Faced with this intricate text, Adams restrained his own penchant for large gestures.
Drifting around the exhibition, between snippets of gnomic wall-text, intricate illustrations and elaborate room-sized props, visitors begin to piece together a post-apocalyptic world, as dreamed up by novelist Hari Kunzru.
But the main body of Mr. Hartke's work, devoted to an intricate setting of the text, is carried by the singers.
A spoiler warning is probably unnecessary, as many people will know the payoff from Brian Selznick's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a singular combination of text and intricate drawings.
The later texts present more intricate views and arguments than the earlier from which the later authors learned.
Harbison's score, layered with exotic colors (like the twanging of a prepared piano), is as dense and lush and intricate as Yeats's opaque text, which was all the more difficult to understand when sung.
Assar's standout work was a mock stain-glass window by Iranian artist Roxana Manouchehri, featuring an intricate mixture of Arabic and Gaelic text, Christian saints and Islamic iconography.
It is ancient yet modern, the intricate beauty of the calligraphy of religious texts and new sounds of the modern hipster street slang on the streets of Beirut.
Confined to a mental institution for 40 years, Wolfli did intricate colored-pencil renditions accompanied by grandiose texts, involving fantastical figures, goggled faces, interlacing birds, shoes and enigmatic emblems.
Beatty's 2,700 Islamic manuscripts include many illuminated copies of the Koran and prayer books, with intricate geometric patterns laced around the calligraphic text.
