Clearly, we can identify it only in and through a performance, a book, a score, or a canvas.
Gary Shteyngart's wonderful new novel, "Super Sad True Love Story," is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance — a book that not only showcases the ebullient satiric gifts he demonstrated in his entertaining 2002 debut, "The Russian Debutante's Handbook," but that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply and movingly about love and loss and mortality.
They won for a wide-ranging celebration of Darwin and evolution at their Caparica Campus that included theater performances, a book and video exhibit, a recreation of Darwin's study, an outdoor installation inspired by Darwin's tree of life, and outreach activities for high school students and senior citizens (http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/darwin2009).pt/darwin2009
People will spend longer analysing a team's performance than a book or film.
Over the past decade, De Haan's Creative Foundation has transformed the town into an arts hub with a triennial art show, a new music and performance venue, a book festival and a public art collection featuring works by Tracey Emin, Mark Wallinger and Cornelia Parker.
He had the idea of looking at how gender, race, politics and genetics impact on sporting performance, in a book that draws on scientific research but is written with a quirky, humorous edge.
Lee has since analysed this performance in a book, which picks apart the fine decisions behind every laugh, yet it is just as important that he performed it with such dramatic intensity.
In his project I'm That Angel, which takes the form of a performance and a book (a printed book!), Coburn tells the story of a content-farm journalist who grinds out stories that chase trending topics on Google or social media and slowly loses his sense of self amid a constant barrage of digital noise.
Gary Shteyngart's wonderful new novel, "Super Sad True Love Story," is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performance -- a book that not only showcases the ebullient satiric gifts he demonstrated in his entertaining 2002 debut, "The Russian Debutante's Handbook," but that also uncovers his abilities to write deeply and movingly about love and loss and mortality.
While that's an impressive performance for a book completely rejected by New York publishers it meant next to nothing to me.
These extreme feelings (usually sadness, heartbreak, or overwhelming joy) tend to come about during a particularly intense/upsetting/wonderful scene or performance in a book, movie, or television show.
