Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Campus film societies were organized by Harvard students for two reasons: (1) to serve as a neutral vehicle to bring films rarely shown in commercial theaters to the university community for the benefit of students of the cinema and anyone interested in the medium and (2) to provide a forum...
Stoppard seems chiefly concerned, in Travesties, to explore the relationship between art and social class. The aesthetic theories associated with Tzara and Lenin-dadaism and socialist realism--are both attacks on the conventional bourgeois notion of art, though from different directions. Yet just as Tzara becomes as conventionally middle-class...
The counterpoint between steel and paint did not always come off, but Smith's effort to make it work was an integral part of American art history. Greenberg's decision to posthumously destroy the evidence of what he considered Smith's "failure" was, one must in charity...
Death Wish starts out as if it were going to make extraordinary demands on the audience's ability to accept and sustain a fantasy. Right off, one is asked to believe that Charles Bronson, who usually acts as if he has trouble writing his own name, is an engineer...
Three things can be said at once about this collection. First, it represents a decent and sincere intention. Second, it contains a smattering of respectable works of art: a set of Matisse chasubles from Vence, a cast of Rodin's Hand of God, some Rouault aquatints and so forth...