Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bok said he weighed the kinds of aesthetic factors that concerned the petitions before making his original decision, and had been forced to conclude that other considerations were more important.
This is not, of course, an accident. Hitler himself would have approved the mythic stature (if not the odium) that posterity has accorded him: his entire life was conceived as a prodigious drama - "Qualis artifex pereo!" as Nero is supposed to have said ("What an artist dies with me!"). Even...
President Bok has hardly given anyone a chance to talk about the aesthetic, educational and financial issues surrounding the demolition of Hunt Hall. We will not fully appreciate what we are losing until the damage has already been done.
Before he began serving a sentence for parole violation at Minnesota state prison at Stillwater, Richard C. Jackson had never been considered an artist. But in 2% years, the 53-year-old printer developed a keen aesthetic eye as well as an appreciation for shading, contrast and tone. Working laboriously...
NEWMAN MOST SEVERELY criticizes projects designed according to aesthetic and "compositional" considerations. "Beauty" predominated over both the functional demands of the urban framework and the lifestyle of tenants. In attacking this approach, Newman combines functional considerations with sociological analysis. However sound his design theories may be, he is no sociologist...