Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With technology as a new aesthetic all objects and materials can be art--not just oil on canvas or clay on armature. Within the art world itself wide-spread use of "found objects," like irons and mattresses, verifies this. And the post-Warhol men who make happenings, assemblages, and environments...
This plastics show demonstrates a beautiful all-plastic sub-aesthetic of this technological aesthetic. And within this even a washing machine agitator, lifted out of its laundromat context, becomes a graceful flowing-spiral sculpture.
But furniture and housing exhibits make the strongest case for a new plastic aesthetic. Obviously we all need shelter and seating. And plastic furniture and houses will be the cheapest of the lovely when they graduate from the avant garde to serious mass production. Pouring plastics into molds can be...
Nabokov's prose is elegant and lucid, easy to read, and amusing. He is one of the few writers who can make a reader laugh out loud, even with "serious criticism" like his delightful essay "On a Book Entitled Lolita." In that essay he says, "After all we are not...
Mailer in his account of the Miami and Chicago conventions makes use of a certain objectivity for literary purposes--he refers to himself in the third person. But this is more than a mere literary device--it is a matter of form, and necessary if he is to maintain an...