Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After four long years of storage, the Fogg Art Museum's permanent photographic collection reemerges in a survey of 40 great masterworks. Chasing Shadows weaves back and forth through the technological and artistic developments in photographic history. A sojourn in the gallery can be both a pleasant aesthetic experience and...
Even if you don't know the House of Chanel from the House of Buggin', you should recognize that clothes are an unusual opportunity to express your personal taste without mussing your lipstick (boys--think Ricky on My So-Called Life), to play make believe (boys--think Ricky on My...
Part of the difficulty lies in the very definition of art. As anthropologist Margaret Conkey of the University of California, Berkeley puts it, "Many cultures don't really produce art, or even have any concept of it. They have spirits, kinship, group identity. If people from highland New Guinea looked...
When Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) completed his Commedia sometime in the first quarter of the fourteenth century, he broke new literary ground by becoming the first Italian poet or produce a formal aesthetic work in the volgare, the native tongue of Tuscany.
Is Still/Here a hospital visit instead of a work of art? Does the real-life pathos of the videotapes overwhelm any possible aesthetic response by the audience? Jones doesn't think so. He feels that people know they're watching dance and not documentary. "When I go to talk sessions...