Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is impossible to mention French orchestral music without taking notice of Hector Berlioz the very symbol of aesthetic romanticism. In music where be was preeminent, he was a brilliant, even an extravagant colorist; a master of the orchestra who painted in tone with the passionate emotionalism of genius. One...
"First of all Mathematics, in its creative aspects, must be considered an art in spite of the fact that few people take time to realize that the primary instincts of the greatest mathematical investigators are aesthetic. However, such a conception of the subject is becoming widespread. In the old sense...
Utterly out of the rut of "travel books"are two volumes, respectively about the Far East* and the Far North.** Aldous Huxley, a goggled-eyed aesthetic master at turning trifles into significant facts, sets forth the searing paradoxes which he constructed on a trip around the world featuring the Orient...
This is the time of year when birds fly south and authors come east. Mr. Harry Hansen, erstwhile of the Chicago press but now on the staff of a New York paper; describes the sensations of migration--in his case a permanent one --in the current Bookman. Deep in a...
There are other things, adds Mr. Frank, which symbolize America as much as jazz: Ethelbert Nevin's "The Rosary" is as native as Irving Berlin's "All Alone"; and Harold Bell Wright and the New York Daily News could exist only in this land of our forefathers. But such trifles...