One of his notable recent preoccupations was the Bajofondo Tango Club, a collective that blended the cafe music of his homeland (Argentina) with the club music of his hometown (Los Angeles).
Barlach also experimented with graphic art and playwriting, and his work in all media is notable for its preoccupation with the sufferings of humanity.
Philip Roth's astounding and sustained period of late creativity has been notable for one unifying preoccupation: death.
It's a bit of treacle — two children awaken on New Year's to realize that their mother has died — but it is notable for its thematic preoccupation, the absence of maternal love, and its precocious technical expertise.
Now gearing up for its third series in the US, Awkward is perhaps most notable for its frank preoccupation with sex, which it approaches in an honest but never overly salacious fashion; it's more interested in the questions that follow the act than the events that lead up to it.
One of the central preoccupations at Sèvres, in which such notable chemists as Jean Hellot were engaged, was the secret of hard-paste porcelain.
Pasternak was notable for an almost unshakable self-esteem and a self-preoccupation so complete that it gave him a lifelong childlike quality.
One could scarcely expect the subject of gay marriage to be the principal preoccupation of the Essex town's chilly shoppers, so it was perhaps notable that very few, when asked, declined to offer a view.
Another big, new preoccupation?
Throughout his career he participated in notable mixed exhibitions, including a series at the Royal Academy of Arts, 1956-61; John Moores, Liverpool, 1957; Hayward Annual, 1982; and Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, from 1984, where he showed many drawings, a constant preoccupation.
