Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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And this, too, is part of Lorca's aesthetic goal. As the poet once wrote, "Only mystery makes us live." Combining the lucid with the ambiguoius, the symbolic with the earthy, the beautiful with the terrible, Lorca's vision is onw which deserves to be more widely performed and appreciated...
For all of the apparent sincerity of Stomp's creators and performers about making trash culture work for the masses, there's a certain cognitive dissonance involved in shelling out a significant amount of cash to an upscale theater like the Wilbur in order to watch dusty young people in...
After intermission, the audience was jarred out of its complacency by Davis' powerful rendition of the Prokofiev Symphony No. 6. Prokofiev composed this symphony in the years 1944 to 1947, and it bears many of the influences of what the Russians call the "Great Patriotic War" (known to us as...
In these scenes, the simplicity of the set design--a bare stage, whose back-drop, with its slowly changing colors and tones of light, evokes the horizon of a flat African savannah--suddenly makes its aesthetic value felt. The dancing warriors are the only thing on the stage: the tawniness...
In fact, American Canvas takes a more Mapplethorp-friendly but no less aesthetically reductive view: "[T]he arts community has long labored under a stubbornly persistent class system of its own, one that continues to haunt the field...a demographic profile that tends to be older, wealthier, better educated, and...