"Monomania" (4AD), the band's sixth studio album, released this spring, is a nuanced, meandering ode to Mr. Cox's many tuneful obsessions — and evokes his acerbic stage persona too.
It explores the dark side of American life by evoking the obsessions, hidden tragedies and cult-like thinking of popular culture and its subcultures, especially rock 'n'roll, while exuding impressive levels of craftsmanship and a store-window display slickness.
April 2 2014 April 5 201414 In this ritualistic new dance, repetition becomes obsession, smeared paint evokes blood and sacrifice, and moaning chants represent a path toward the unleashing of internal energies.
Dahl is brilliant at evoking the childhood obsession with candy, which most adults can recall only vaguely.
With the jangling lines and irregular octagonal canvas of "Narrative Yard," Mr. Tremblay revisits the shaped-painting obsession of the early 1960's, simultaneously evoking the work of Frank Stella and Dan Christiansen.
Indian verses about intimacy, a quiet moment of grief and 'the bard of the toxic relationship': experts from around the world pick their favourite literary lines evoking lust, ardour – and obsession.
No composer has transcribed bird song with more dedication than Messiaen, an ornithological sampling artist whose obsession manifested itself in myriad colorful works evoking birdcalls.
"A Book of Secrets" is a book of magic, a sleight of hand by a master conjurer singing his swan song, sweetly, softly, with piercing wit and overwhelming compassion, his poetry in prose evoking a time past, with all its outrageous obsessions, its illegal passions, its melancholy perfume.
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three and a half stars out of five, saying "In the guise of a family film, Burton evokes a darkly erotic obsession that recalls Edgar Allan Poe and Hitchcock's Vertigo.
A first-person narrative in Wegener's voice, this story artfully captures his Arctic expeditions and evokes a life of scientific obsession and discovery.
One of the nice surprises is the Red Banner Textile Factory (1925-37), by the German architect Erich Mendelsohn: its curved streamlined facade, punctuated by a row of slender black smokestacks, evokes a steamship, another Modernist obsession.
