"Fearful Symmetry:" Clive Barker Discusses the Art of Fantasy

By sheer volume alone, Clive Barker's accomplishments are mammoth, to say nothing of the genius and passion he has poured into each project, projects even Michelangelo might have found daunting in scope: multi-dimensional marathons-starting in Clive's powerful imagination, moving through sketches to larger-than-life paintings, moving on to text and often arriving on the movie screen. Since founding a small theater group in London as a young man, Mr. Barker has gone on to write and produce some of the most successful and artful horror movies of modern times, as well as a seemingly inexhaustible stream of fantasy novels and stories for young and old alike which continue to translate to the cinema. Playwright, painter, horror novelist, graphic novelist, fantasy novelist, movie director, short story author, dog lover, husband and father, Clive Barker is a remarkable man who can quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake and William Wordsworth, as well as Peter Pan, as he carries on a conversation that plumbs the depths of the human subconscious, quantum physics and how fantasy fiction touches the human psyche. In Abarat, however, I reversed the system. Because there had been some anxiety, and I think, legitimate anxiety, on Harper's part, that Clive Barker, the inventor of Hellraiser and Candyman would easily turn his hand to children's fiction. [...]Nick says, "Why would I need to learn that when I can find it on the computer?" In terms of concrete knowledge about the world, which I would call historical knowledge, for instance, I find a deficit among kids today.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Blasingame, James

Đề mục:

Fiction

Nhà xuất bản:

Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English

Ngày xuất bản:

Winter 2005

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Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v32i2.a.5

Nguồn gốc:

ALAN Review; Youngstown, Volume 32, Issue 2, Winter 2005, Pages 26-31

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ISSN 0882-2840

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"Fearful Symmetry:" Clive Barker Discusses the Art of Fantasy

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