The beloved precision of the classic high-studio style (yes, there are many sub-styles, the work of many different artists and their different points of view) gave rise to a realm of symbolic hints by which the inexpressible was conveyed and the unrepresentable was conjured.
One heads further into the vortex, accompanied by ever wilder images in an ever more fervent confrontation with — and acceptance of — the definitively unrepresentable void.
The idea that the Holocaust defeats attempts at artistic dramatization — that it constitutes, in Andreas Huyssen's words, "unimaginable, unspeakable, and unrepresentable horror" — has a particular force in the world of music.
It also suggests, in its abstraction, the unrepresentable enormity of Rachel's situation.
And today — take the idea, in Islamic tradition, of the 'inconceivable and unrepresentable God.' I would assume each side would be interested in investigating that further, in talking about it more.
War had broken out in Europe, Asia, and Africa; then the United States was attacked and at war; and, while the war was being fought, artists who were at home at a time of the unfathomable, the unrepresentable, and the inexpressible found alternate means to distill its moods and tones into extreme styles.
For this composer, for Murnane, for his narrator, any serious art work will fail, as soon as it becomes actual, to capture the possible; but that failure itself can gesture toward, offer a hint of, the invisible topology that is no less real for being unrepresentable.
A peculiar consequence of so rarely seeing your kind on television, in movies, in plays, what have you, is that you can become, almost unwittingly, attached to a certain kind of wildness: the wildness of feeling not only unrepresented but somehow unrepresentable in ordinary terms.
The sense of solidarity in the collective person is that of an "unrepresentable" solidarity.
Together with ingei (mudra) and shingon (mantra), the practitioner's kansô allows the mandalic structure inseparable from the insight attained in such practice — an "image" that in itself is visually unrepresentable and hence irreducible to the visual mandalic icon — to unfold.
