Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LAWN FLAMINGOS, McDonald's, split-level late Spanish-American gauche, all have become such standard anathemas--purgative scapegoats in a hundred late-night conversations--that their implications have ceased to be aesthetic and are now political. They are obligatory codewords to be randomly dropped and floridly condemned as a means...
Aesthetic sense demands ironic distance, be it geographic or in time, because what is unconsciously accepted is often also what is most beautiful. This is not a sociological justification of Lichtenstein; although his blow up paintings of comic-book panels, sandwiches and soda-pop, is as lucid and incisive a...
Decline of Taste. A quarter of the paintings in the show and most of the craft objects-porcelain, lacquer, carvings, metalwork-were made after 1853, when Commodore Perry sailed into Edo Bay like some astronaut landing on an unvisited planet. This marked the beginning of Japan's cultural infatuation...
Swift Irregularity. So the current exhibition, Art of the Arab World, at Washington's Freer Gallery is not to be missed. Organized by Art Historian Esin Atil, from the encyclopedic stores of the gallery's own collection, the show contains 80 objects, many of superb aesthetic interest, ranging...
For all the American background. Smith remains a very English artist. No matter what the style, English art has never felt like American, and one of the differences has to do with sociability. Smith's work is quite conversational in its ease of style. Like Caro's or...