Skip to content

Category Archives: Reconstructivist Art

Reconstructivist Art: Maus

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” as an example of Reconstructivist Art Experimental cartoonist Art Spiegelman shocked both his underground fan base and mainstream America with his emotional portrait of his parent’s lives during the Holocaust told in graphic-novel (comic-book) format. Reconstructivist Elements: Nod to Artifice: Spiegelman appears as a character in the book(s) and comments on his [...]

Also filed in Comics and Graphic Novels | | Comments (1)

Reconstructivist Art: The Lion King

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Julie Taymor’s “Lion King” as an example of Reconstructivist Art Experimental theater veteran Julie Taymor put together this commercial and critical smash hit musical-theater adaptation of a Disney movie. Reconstructivist Elements: Nod to Artifice: The show features fully visible puppeteers, and actors whose faces show beneath their animal masks, as well as an unashamedly theatrical [...]

Also filed in Plays and Musicals | | Comments (0)

Reconstructivist Art: Diesel Sweeties

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

R. Stevens’ “Diesel Sweeties” as an example of Reconstructivist Art Diesel Sweeties is a subversive and deceptively simple web-based comic strip depicting the lives, passions and tangled love affairs of a motley group of humans, robots, pets and inanimate objects. Reconstructivist Elements: Nod to Artifice: In Diesel Sweeties, the stylized pixelation of the artwork highlights [...]

Also filed in Comics and Graphic Novels | | Comments (0)

Reconstructivist Art: The Neverending Story

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Michael Ende’s “The Neverending Story” as an example of Reconstructivist Art Michael Ende’s international bestseller found an audience among children and adults alike, and should not be confused with the more juvenile movie adaptation. While the movie faithfully reproduced the conventional fairy tale that takes up the first half of the book, it ignored the [...]

Also filed in Literature | | Comments (0)

Reconstructivist Art

Friday, December 10, 2004

to reawaken a sense of the Real in a world where everything has been demonstrated to be an illusion

Also filed in Art, Literature, Movies, Music, Philosophy, Popular Culture | | Comments (12)