Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mandelstam was to die in one of Stalin's Siberian prison camps at the beginning of World War II. He was one of Russia's finest modern poets, an artist who built his poems from gritty blocks of life. Anna Akhmatova, a close friend of the Mandelstams, shared...
The Save Hunt Hall Committee presented Bok with its petition, bearing 779 signatures, on May 24. Bok said he had weighed aesthetic considerations and concluded that the need for space was more important, so Hunt Hall would be torn down as scheduled.
It was a high price to pay for an artistic effect, but Mishima's death did at least serve to endow his last works, now being published in English translation, with an eerie sense of death anticipating art. This is especially true of Runaway Horses, the second volume of...
The Sears Tower has already come under attack from critics who argue that it will add to the congestion of Chicago's Loop. It has also been criticized on aesthetic grounds, and is certainly a far cry from the conventional, slick, sheer-walled slab. But S.O.M. was really following...
Some of the classics in the world of the arts are like family heirlooms, objects of lingering sentiment rather than pinnacles of aesthetic quality. Is the Mona Lisa a great painting, Les Sylphides a great ballet, or Clair de Lune a great piece of music? Not really, but they are...