Word: aesthetician
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...Abbeville; 319 pages; $85). "His sole aim was to create entertainment." But the two goals are not mutually exclusive, as demonstrated by this vast selection gleaned from millions of sketches, paintings and layouts. Abrams' book continues the elevation of Disney from the Barnum of the barnyard to an aesthetician with uncanny instincts. This is no Mickey Mouse collection; it includes paintings by, of all people, Thomas Hart Benton and Salvador Dali, which were commissioned by Walt as "inspirational sketches" for his animators. At the studio, "fine art" was stressed. As one executive had it, "If it works...
...tried. He flicked the famous snakelike jab, laced together combinations and shot rights to Spinks' head. It was exquisitely conceived boxing from Ali, the aesthetician of ring art. But what the canny mind desired, the 36-year-old body?measuring itself now in the milliseconds between impulse and action?could not deliver. Age had slowed the timing: too many punches landed without sting, grazed past Spinks' youth-quick dodges or missed altogether...
...ability to extricate the emotive/aesthetic from the intellectual/academic response is hampered particularly in dealing with literature. Needless to say, the aesthetician is today almost dispensable, even obsolete, in the verbal disciplines. Critic W. K. Wimsatt states rather bluntly: "The intellectual character of language makes literature difficult for the aesthetician." If this point needs elaboration, simply look at some college students' textual analyses to see how many are technicians for whom a judgment of taste or pure form requires non-analytic tools we have forgotten...
...observed that scheme after scheme to beautify America's topsy-built cities failed because the true client was the real estate entrepreneur rather than the aesthetician. Pei signed on with Manhattan Realtor William Zeckendorf to see if a creative balance could be struck between big deals and good design. The working relationship produced Manhattan's Kips Bay Plaza apartments, Montreal's Place Ville Marie and Denver's Mile High Center. But a decade ago, Pei decided it was time to begin striking out on his own: he became a U.S. citizen...