Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In particular, many of architect Sert's aesthetic features have been scrapped due to funding cutbacks and inflation. The 420-foot arcade running east-west through the center of the building was going to be decorated with art works. The terraces of the office wing were supposed to have been...
Anti-taste is still an attitude; one can sustain it well or badly. A lot of the work shown here, from Seymour Rosofsky's clumsy paintings to more overtly "aesthetic" objects like Don Baum's lumpen-surrealist assemblages of dolls' limbs or Cosmo Campoli's inert...
The suit, filed by 19 community organizations from Chicago's predominantly white Northwest and Southwest sides, charges that the Department of Housing and Urban Development violated the antipollution law when it approved 100 sites in those areas for public housing projects. The complaint says: "As a statistical whole, low...
Stewart did find, however, that "aesthetic and environmental wellbeing, like economic wellbeing, are important ingredients of the quality of life" and are "deserving of legal protection." For environmentalists, that was an important victory. Stewart went on to drop a footnote broadly hinting that if the Sierra Club amended its complaint...
Playing brilliantly on the Uniturf overlay surface, Harvard swept five singles and all three doubles matches in straight sets and went on to a convincing 9-0 victory, its third straight since the "aesthetic trauma" at Columbia-Princeton two weekends ago.