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Word: aestheticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mr. Ficke prefaced his remarks by stating that there was a general expectation of aesthetic revelation in approaching his art; nevertheless, when these prints were being produced, they were preeminently products of a vulgar, a popular art.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEAKS ON DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE PRINTS | 10/21/1922 | See Source »

Just as competing for the Prix de Rome revealed the extraordinary ability of Berlioz and Debussy, so the awarding of an American Fellowship may bring out another MacDowell. Those who complain of the misdirected energies of the "materialistic" American people will be pleased to note the increasing tendency toward aesthetic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENIUS | 3/2/1922 | See Source »

What more natural, then, that we should adjust out school system, particularly the primary, so that education for the best possible enjoyment of leisure may replace present-day education for economic efficiency--alike for the laborer and Mr. Seaver's "young barbarians" in the colleges? After all, it is the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/21/1921 | See Source »

The truth of the matter is that we are intolerant. As individuals, as groups, and as a College, we are unwilling to appreciate, and perhaps even to understand, the opinions of others with whom we are out of sympathy. Blinded to our own faults, we pride ourselves that we are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A One-Type College | 11/9/1921 | See Source »

Every aesthetic possibility of these seeming-fragile structures, these English cathedrals, Mr. Conant has realized and rendered with short, firm staccato pencil strokes. All the training of the professional architect is behind him, and that implies a solidity of handling unknown to the disintegrated impressionist schools. (Nothing could be more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH CATHEDRIALS IN PRINTS AT THE FOGG | 10/29/1921 | See Source »

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