Instead of being organized by period — "British eighteenth-century painting," say — galleries could be organized around human-scale themes, like marriage, aging, and work.
Although idiographic to some extent, island-scale themes did emerge that are broadly representative of all Emae communities.
Most of the other outstanding art events are either grandly scaled theme shows dedicated to a particular movement or idea, or Cook's tour sweeps of a single culture.
Longtime Florida visitors remember the park for its fanciful trained-bird acts, like cockatoos pedaling miniature bicycles, but the new site, which opened June 28, is built to compete with Orlando-scale theme parks like SeaWorld.
Ratanga Junction, just outside of Cape Town, is Africa's first large-scale theme park and is only 3 years old.
It felt more human in scale, its themes more clearly threaded throughout, glinting from track to track.
In Parade's End (1950; comprising Some Do Not, 1924; No More Parades, 1925; A Man Could Stand Up, 1926; and Last Post, 1928) Ford Madox Ford, with an obvious debt to James and Conrad, examined the demise of aristocratic England in the course of the war, exploring on a larger scale the themes he had treated with brilliant economy in his short novel The Good Soldier (1915).
As a judge in this year's Orange prize, it's hard to ignore the sheer volume of thinly disguised autobiographical writing from women on small-scale domestic themes such as motherhood, boyfriend troubles and tiny family dramas.
It was the film, with its cosmic scale and theme of a transcendental "force" that confers superhuman powers on those who can align with it, which opened up mainstream American culture to Indian esotericism more than anything else.
