From the late 1880s on, he produced a series of innovative, monumental mass-market lithographic posters advertising more prosaic themes — serial novels, magazines, books, products and even the Ault & Wiborg Company, makers of fine inks, based in Cincinnati.
Andersson, who was born in Sweden and who studied and still works at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Stockholm, creates worlds that, despite their prosaic themes, are imbued with a Nordic appraisal of limited daylight, of folklore, of macabre landscapes with zero traces of modern life – no phones, no screens, no laptop light.
The result was a gradual movement away from poetic experimentation and toward an increasingly prosaic treatment of everyday themes with the sensuous lyricism that became his hallmark.
(Mr. Howard's more prosaic interpretation of this same theme results in a lot of... close-ups.) But Mr. Morgan radically underestimates Nixon's own understanding of television itself.
Though the book, published last year by Umbrage, contains plenty of saucy photos, the themes are more prosaic than one might expect from a book about sex as industry, and they're profoundly American.
The author left his publisher of 20 years, Alfred A. Knopf, changed literary agents and is poised to publish a new book, "Single & Single," that continues his movement away from espionage themes and the prosaic world of his weary and brooding spy, George Smiley.
Shortlisted for last year's Booker Prize, Heller's second novel takes a tired theme - marital infidelity - and a startlingly prosaic conceit (privileged teacher and underprivileged student fall in love) and spins a pacey, mischievous social satire.
The major theme is understanding all of nature, from the prosaic to the exotic, using a powerful quantitative theory grounded in precise experiments.
Rupp says the reason for contract's failure may have been the Christian theme, but it could have been something a little more prosaic.
The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience.
Thanks partly to the puritan tradition, partly to a national suspicion of pretension, it has always been more at home with the prosaic and the dowdy.For the past 40 years, it has been TV-influenced in terms of theme and content, and West End-influenced in terms of performance.
