Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of Bernardo Bertolucci's previous films could so stir the psyche. Those works -- including one or two masterpieces -- were, as everyone said, lush and lyrical. They were emotive but they established an aesthetic distance that made them much less immediate than Last Tango.
In The Conformist, Bertolucci explored the personal life of a fascist, flirting with psycho-history. But his film argues the connection between sexual repression and fascism even less clearly than the novel by Alberto Moravia on which it was based. So the psychology of the characters become subordinate to the...
New York Met Director Thomas Hoving proclaimed that with the acquisition of the Euphronios vase, "the histories of art will have to be rewritten." Dr. Giovanni Scichilone, 39, archaeological director of the Italian government's antiquities bureau for southern Etruria, rejects this aesthetic evaluation as too narrow. "Maybe a...
Stubbins submitted his final design of the library in February of this year. Bok was scheduled to approve the design on February 20, but decided to delay his approval a week. The reasons for the postponement were not revealed; Bok would only say that he "wanted to look into all...
Papp's good news came from Manhattan's Lincoln Center, where he was given control of all drama production. Potentially the most prestigious and influential dramatic organization in the U.S., Lincoln Center's theater company has floundered almost since its beginning eight years ago. Far from being...