Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As if the Gehry building had not caused the American Center enough financial trouble, it has also created an aesthetic controversy -- but not the one anybody would have expected. Parisians think the building is too ... Parisian. Critics have complained that it is not bold and Californian enough. Gehry "has abandoned...
She made peace with the problem by asserting her own aesthetic. She had a stage built and invited performers like cellist Pablo Casals and the American Ballet Theatre -- a glamorization of politics that was unprecedented. More important, she redid the place, replacing routine reproductions with authentic period pieces and fabrics...
Ogden begins on a scientific note, discussing her sampling techniques and academic interest in the matter of female sexuality. For example, the Venn diagram on page 73 looks convincingly technical, apart from its symmetrical, aesthetic appeal. Normally first seen in high school math textbooks, the three intersecting circles help clarify...
To Wills the model of an artistic leader is Martha Graham, who invented a vocabulary for modern dance -- "the one art form other than jazz," said choreographer Paul Taylor, who had been a member of her company, "that can be called truly American." The intriguing antitype is Madonna, who briefly...
All of these aesthetic offenses on the landscape are far more dramatic than the poor Sign that had to take the fall. But to quote our favorite sacrificial lamb: "You won't have the Shops by Harvard yard' sign to kick around anymore."