Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A man comes alone to Venice to siesta by the sea. As the film progresses, we learn through flashback sequences that he is also there to recuperate from several emotional traumas, including his sense of failure as an artist and the grief he experienced from his daughter's death. We...
Nair sees herself in the very clash of identities that her films represent. But rather than affect a Third World cosmopolitanism, she grounds herself in the particulars of exile, never abandoning her sense of origin. "If you don't know where you come from," she insists, "then you're just...
More than a mere aesthetic wonder, The Linkaccomplishes two interrelated functions. Byconnecting Mallinckrodt and Hoffman physically, itjoins their two disciplines conceptually. Thecorridor that links the Chemistry Department toEarth and Planetary Sciences (EPS), then, is morethan just a walkway. It's an idea. The Link is onemomma step for science-kind...
But are arbitrary randomness, programmed chance operations and a nearly value-free definition of what constitutes music a satisfactory basis for an aesthetic? Was Cage the great artist his admirers proclaim, or was he merely an ersatz Dadaist, proudly parading around in his emperor's new clothes as he pursued...
"And the worst part of it is, the same thing is happening to me...today I spent all afternoon rearranging the postcards on my wall because I was thinking about what you said yesterday about a person's `individual aesthetic experience.' I'm messed up enough without being sucked into...