Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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One is reminded that the Met is unique in America, not only in width of charter but also in breadth of collections-5,000 years of cultural history embedded in some 3 million objects. A few years ago, such figures seemed intimidating to many New Yorkers. The very idea of...
The Kupka exhibit starts at the top of the Guggenheim and spirals down through time, following the turns of "modern art." Kupka imitates or reflects dominant influences of his time: Matisse, Delaunay, Gross, Mondrian, Kay Nelson. But in looking at the works as a retrospective of the major aesthetic revolutions...
Major Collaboration. But no brief summary can do justice to the aesthetic wealth of this show, to its in sights into political and social history - there is a particularly good section on European responses to the American Revolution - or to its close texture of information. It is as fine an...
FIFTH PARADOX: Stanley Kubrick himself. Barry Lyndon may be an austere epic, but an epic it surely is. Such works pose complex logistical and technical problems that must be solved along with the aesthetic questions that arise every time a new camera setup is chosen. Kubrick's basic cast...
Research aids him in another way. Movie sets - even the cool, orderly ones Kubrick is famous for running - seethe with logistical, technical and emotional problems. As Kubrick mildly puts it, "The atmosphere is inimical to making subtle aesthetic decisions." He is unable to determine how to shoot a scene until...