Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Team Colors: They've got black and red. We've got crimson and white. Harvard's colors mesh nicely. Not too dull, but not too flashy. Northeastern's are dark and lack contrast. Maybe it's an attempt to look intimidating. Problem is, Northeastern doesn't skate intimidating players. Aesthetic...
Working from photographs -- whether specially taken for the painting or clipped from the press -- produced some of Sickert's most engrossing images. Among them are his 1929 portrait of the novelist Hugh Walpole and The Miner, circa 1935: a man just out of the pit, fiercely kissing his wife, an...
As an orientation course for those who don't know much about classical Greek sculpture -- and as a source of unalloyed aesthetic pleasure for those who do -- this show ought not to be missed. But neither should its second premise be taken seriously: the idea that there was some causal...
| The film may have looked escapist at the time. But its central themes -- the conflicting claims of loyalty, ambition and love, the psychic links between the artist-outsider and the outlaw, the irrational constraints imposed on performers by aesthetic dunces in high places -- had immediate relevance for Carne and his...
In the 1960s and '70s, the soul sounds of Detroit and Philadelphia were the glory of American pop. From the funk styles of James Brown to the fervid testifying of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye, soul music was something you could not only hear but also feel: rhythm without blues...