ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ARTIFICE
From Old French, from Latin artificium skill, from artifex one possessed of a specific skill, from ars skill + -fex, from facere to make.
10 QUOTES WITH «ARTIFICE»
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artifice.
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.
The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARTIFICE»
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With scenes of tense action and surprisingly tender romance, Artifice is a thoughtful and provocative science-fiction story that both women and men will enjoy.
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Radical
Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media
Among the many poets Perloff discusses are John Ashbery, George Oppen, Susan Howe, Clark Coolidge, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, Steve McCaffery, and preeminently, John Cage--Publisher.
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Agents of
Artifice: A Planeswalker Novel
Upset with himself and fearing for his life, Jace sets out to find who is behind this new threat. What he uncovers along the way, an inter-planar chase filled with peril, will alter everything he knows. From the Paperback edition.
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Artifice and Illusion: The Art and Writing of Samuel Van ...
In this book, Celeste Brusati looks at the art, writing, and career of this multifaceted artist.
Celeste Brusati, Samuel van Hoogstraten,
1995
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Artifact and
Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient ...
Jonathan M. Hall employs a series of well-known cases to investigate how historians may ignore or minimize material evidence that contributes to our knowledge of antiquity unless it correlates with information gleaned from texts.
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The Book of Martyrdom and
Artifice: First Journals and ...
Presents an anthology of Ginsberg's earliest poems and journal entries, discussing his first encounters with lifelong friends Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, his experimentation with drugs, and his struggle to come to terms with his ...
Allen Ginsberg, Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton, Bill Morgan,
2006
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Shakespeare And Language: Reason, Eloquence and
Artifice in ...
'This book is nothing short of brilliant. It is bursting with new observations, pithy readings and sensitive analyses. One of Hope's skills is to show us that 'language' is not separable from 'ideas'; both are systems of representation.
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Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe,
Artifice and the Reader
This new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New ...
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Nature and
Artifice: The Life and Thought of Thomas Hodgskin ...
Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869), radical thinker, is the subject of this study, and he is presented here as a forerunner of New Right ideology rather than as early English socialist'.
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The Body Impolitic: Artisans and
Artifice in the Global ...
The Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the necks of those who are condemned to produce it.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ARTIFICE»
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'True Detective,' Season 2, Episode 3: 'Maybe Tomorrow'
For all the illusion and layers, the artifice of the film sets, and the hallucinatory red and blue lights of the nightclub that Paul works, this was an ... «Grantland, Jul 15»
Why Joe Biden should run in 2016
And that battle between artifice and integrity could be the story some Democrats have been waiting for. Timothy Stanley, author of “Citizen ... «The Keene Sentinel, Jul 15»
Eli Roth Loves Sharks
But Roth's love goes beyond the artifice of CGI sharks in horror movies; he was asked to swim with real sharks for Discovery Channel's beloved ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
James Bond 007: revisiting Licence To Kill
Hence the frequent sense of artifice, the near audible grinding of well-worn gears. (Here's the villain, here's the lair…) Getting started can be a ... «Den Of Geek, Jul 15»
Q&A: Author Eric Wilson on how to create an authentic identity in an …
I would say that's a negative form or harmful form of artifice because it doesn't connect us to people, it alienates us. To give you an example, the ... «Deseret News, Jul 15»
Raymond Cauchetier's Nouvelle Vague: “Artists are creators. I am a …
Yet there is a strong sense that there were two revolutions on the sets of the Nouvelle Vague, the spontaneity and lack of artifice of motion film, ... «British Journal of Photography, Jul 15»
Dinner Sanctum
The movies with Malle reconceived how film can treat theater pieces and theatrical staging, devising organic ways of balancing out artifice and ... «Artforum, Jul 15»
Yukon Gold Panning Championships: 'Trust the pan'
Competitive gold panning is a thing and there's a little bit of artifice to the procedure. Competitors line up in front of huge tubs of water and are ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
Cut Once – Cut Once E.P.
Populated by dazzling production, dense synth-lines and roaring vocals the music of Cut Once E.P. is one of wonder and technological artifice. «the Last Mixed Tape, Jul 15»
Cave Moon Press, ADHD, & Poems to Help Homeless Vets
Weekends are an artifice of the Industrial Age. Because of this, we have no sense of time or [the] sacred. We refuse Shalom. We refuse the Tao. «seattlepi.com, Jul 15»