Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Political Guides. The long-range development of Jerusalem is under attack on aesthetic as well as political grounds. In 1969, Kollek formed the Jerusalem Committee, a 25-member international panel including such renowned architects and city planners as Philip Johnson, Louis I. Kahn, Buckminster Fuller and Italy's Bruno...
One helpful character, May Wish, seems to take pity on the bewildered listeners and offers an explanation of the play's symbolism. The cigar (whose properties preoccupy Iambiguous the Tam) is, she says, the moral equivalent of the magic kazoo (which equally intrigues lamb) and the aesthetic substitute for the...
In a sense, art can also be both social and aesthetic, tapping the emotion of the viewer in a particular manner to communicate to him the artist's impressions of our existence.
REVOLUTION AS THE ATRE is the title of one of Brustein's most controversial essays, which appeared in the New Republic a year or so ago. Its thesis is that the political events of contemporary America are theatre, not reality. Thus: "When James Forman disrupts a church service to demand...
Vibrant Impresario. Tyler's policy is to invite four artists a year to produce a suite of prints. Like a mustachioed impresario fussing over his stars, Tyler supplies his charges at Gemini with everything from Arches cover paper to limousines and sushi fish. His first catch was Josef Albers...