After having published two novels by 1958, John Barth sat in front of a fireplace for two years, without moving or budging or repositioning himself for comfort; when asked what he was doing, the young man would respond, "Thinking." Come the end of this lengthy meditative period, a novel named "The

Abstract, Absurd, Beautiful , Experimental, Funny, Layered, Pioneering, Postmodern fiction, Sprawling

The artist to represent Canada in the 2007 Venice Biennial, Altmejd's large-scale sculptures are crystalline, hairy, decomposing, holy-hollow and pastel-painted. Often an important component of the sculptures are low lying plinth like supports, which give a museum-type feel to the werewolves, birds,

Architectural, Fantastic, Geometric, Grotesque, Kaleidoscopic, Modern sculpture, Phallic, Sprawling

A completely multi-media artist, Matthew Ritchie culls from all areas as diverse and disparate such as science, media, space and time.

Sprawling

Banal, Baroque, Clean, Clever, Deconstructive, Decorative, Demure, Domestic, Eclectic, Feminist, Flux, Graffitists and cartoonists, Mythic, Perverse, Playful, Pop, Pristine, Profane, Smart, Sprawling, Sublime, Visceral, Witty