Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But despite the aesthetic mystery of their pealing, the Lowell House bells embody something visceral and powerful that falls altogether outside the realm of music. Standing high above Harvard on an open platform and ringing the "Red Bell of Pestilence and Famine" is, Aara will tell you, an exhilarating experience...
Indeed the result was quite spectacular. Technically, the play was a sensory splendor--most arresting on the visual plane, but pleasing to more senses than just the eyes. What is immediately apparent is the role of inanimacy in this production, the unspoken heroics of sound and lightning, although purists might...
Williams explained that each of her songs "tunnels through the experience of being a woman." The poetry resonates in me: "I am the brainchild, I am the mortar, with a plastic trophy and an eating disorder and a vision as big as a great big wall, and they tell me...
Originally the Museum of Germanic Art, the Busch-Reisinger has accumulated over the past century an impressive holding of post-1880 German art with a particular emphasis on German Expressionism. The stark curation and sparing use of didactic wall texts are appropriately austere, boldly offsetting the colorful effusiveness of Gerhard...
But far greater than the aesthetic or moral shock of the exhibit may be its political repercussions. Here New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has raised a stink of his own. The mayor cut the museums municipal funding of $7 million annually, citing his belief that public funding should not...