They are ghosts, phantasmagorias, but also the ground for present and future constructions.
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For four years Mr. Ditko imagined Strange's netherworlds, Dalí-esque dimensions and neuron-like phantasmagorias.
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The pieces in the exhibition, collectively and individually, are thought-provoking social commentaries that read like a series of dreams and phantasmagorias.
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Perhaps it can also provide some psychic armor, to protect us from the horrors of the political phantasmagorias that dance daily across our screens.
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The current retrospective, curated by Jérôme Sans, encompasses four distinct "chapters": epic phantasmagorias, individual portraits, journals of the artist's life and a piece in virtual reality.
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She is securely esteemed—or adored, more like it—for her ebulliently faux-naïve paintings of party scenes and of her famous friends, and for her four satirical allegories of Manhattan, which she called "Cathedrals": symbol-packed phantasmagorias of Fifth Avenue, Broadway, Wall Street, and Art, at the Metropolitan Museum.
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In the game, several flashbacks are shown to fictional phantasmagorias performed by the magician "Carno". However, unlike the real shows, his are much more graphic and violent in nature.
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Dan Alexe stated that the book is "mystical delirium", and called its author "an occultist notary without schooling in history and linguistics."Alexe (2015: 94) Florin Țurcanu stated about Densușianu: "tireless creator of phantasmagorias".
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The commercial success of Phantasmagoria had a positive financial impact on Sierra On-Line. Before its release, the company's stock rose in July 1995, up $3.875 to $30.875, which Vince Turzo of Jeffries & Co attributed in part due to anticipation of Phantasmagoria. Sierra's stock continued to rise after it was released. The company closed on the NASDAQ stock market at $43.25 on September 8, 1995, translating to a 73 percent gain in less than three months, which Turzo attributed partially to Phantasmagorias success.
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Reviewer Simona Vasilache also suggests that the Bizarre Pages hide a "long digested" rage, with serious and even dramatic undertones. Other essayists have spoken about Urmuz's "cruelty" in depicting anguishing situations, in criticizing social life and in using language stripped of its metaphors; they call him "one of the cruelest authors I ever did read" (Eugène Ionesco) and "cruel in a primitive sense" (Irina Ungureanu). As Ciprian reports, Urmuz was also self-deprecatory, amused by the others' attention, and claiming that his own elucubrații ("phantasmagorias") could only still be used to "trip the seminary brethren".Ciprian, p.
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