Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Two periods of training in Mr. Feild's career were incorporated in his exhibit. As his first job in America upon return from fighting in World War I and studying art in Paris at the Julian Academy, he was apprenticed to a Boston stainglass maker. Light in one of Mr...
True Art. A few years later, Mondrian became an enthusiastic convert to Theosophy; he was very much struck by Philosopher Rudolf Steiner's belief that ''occult influences . . . can be awakened by devotional religious feelings, true art, music." But what was "true" art? Mondrian was sure that art...
Saving Trees. Thus far, the new furniture is selling best to young, intellectually oriented and often ecology-minded buyers, many of whom also buy the philosophy of Max Lawrence, a Los Angeles furniture-company executive. "If man is committed to preserving his natural environment," says Lawrence, "furniture through chemistry is...
Festival Prize "Last year, who knew?" asks the ad for the New York Film Festival, Manhattan's annual exhibition of new cinema. Below the question is the old announcement of Five Easy Pieces, first shown at last year's fete. "This year, who knows?" continues the ad, exhibiting...
Eventually one wonders if there is not a little Flying Wallenda in Author Mosley-a lot of skill and daring and not a little wobble. The unsatisfied muse, Natalie, might point out that there are too many attenuated aperçus here and too big an aesthetic load weighing on...