Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The reasons are more economic than aesthetic; postage matters more than paper to the mass-circulation magazines. For those in financial straits, it is a matter of shrink or sink. Some time this year, a new, privately run U.S. Postal Service will raise second-class mailing rates by at least...
The most distressing historical accomplishment of Sarris's rise to fame has been his ability to turn avowed cultism into a major dynamic in a film world previously unsullied by grotesque consumer fetishism. With Kauffmann writing for the New Republic, Dwight MacDonald for Esquire, and Robert Hatch for the Nation...
The Velásquez sale was an economic event, not an aesthetic one. Said one dealer: "It's not so much that art prices rise, it's more that the value of money keeps falling."
riverrun tells of a young couple fresh from Berkeley, living together somewhere in the California countryside. Opting out of conventional social strata and consumerism, they settle on a farm and attempt to live in a Walden -esque fashion. Their tranquility is upset when Sarah's father, a merchant seaman, makes...
Minor White could have called his photo exhibit, In Search of A New Aesthetic: Be-ingness as Ideal Form. What White means by "be-ingness" is exemplified by the difference in the relationships between the photographer and his model and between the artist and his model. Where the photographer must...