I've written here recently about his mastery of melodrama as a modern, ironic variety of tragedy, and about the powerful visual style with which he invokes that idea.
Though I'll be travelling mostly in Europe, I'll be taking with me and rereading two classics dealing with faraway places: Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly, set in Borneo in the late 19th century, and Joseph Mitchell's Up in the Old Hotel (Vintage £11.99), a collection of stories about New York City in the 1940s, which invokes a world that is no less exotic and has also vanished.
It is a tension within aesthetic experience between what an artwork invokes of its subject-matter and how what is invoked changes the character of that which invokes it.
That poetry, which invokes the seedier side of urban life with a celebratory zeal, falls stylistically somewhere between the Beats and contemporary rap.
That feeling of repetitive time filling is a problem that pervades "L'Anatomie," which invokes various paintings and biographical moments in Bacon's life without undue emphasis over its nine movements.
This would make more sense of the common realist insistence on "national interest" as the dominant value in political affairs, and would connect with one interpretation of dirty hands, namely that which invokes role morality.
Which invokes Satan, and he's supposed to reply?
What you ultimately want to achieve is that your campaign is like a movie you would be interested in watching which invokes a sense of mystery.
City officials are pinning much of their hopes for preventing payouts from ballooning out of control on a motion that city lawyers filed in December, which invoked a 19th-century maritime statute that limits the liability of the owner of a vessel in a crash in certain cases.
The biggest of those has been CNOOC's takeover of Canada's Nexen for $15.1bn, which invoked concerns in Canada that it may give too much influence to China in Canada's oil and gas sector.
