Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barbara Johnson, chair, Department of Women's Studies, reflected that to her the strength of this piece was in its "lack of governing consciousness. The desire to establish a solid ground from which the rest can be seen as spectacle is exactly what this performance thwarts. It is constantly impossible...
The Hebrew Bible portrays Philistines as boorish warriors, the opposite of Israeli heroes like David and Saul. And the word "philistine" has entered into common usage to describe a person who lacks an appreciation for intellectual and aesthetic matters.
It is unlikely that this show will force a sudden rewriting of American art history. No judgment by aesthetic, rather than racial, criteria can make him into a lost "great American painter," though certainly he was a good one. The show, and in particular Powell's detailed catalog -- a benchmark...
Luke, who likes to skate in traffic ("It's the adrenaline"), says "I definitely think you should wear [a helmet]. I don't wear it myself, for aesthetic reasons."
The $19-billion-a-year company has often been the target of those who disparage everything from its entry-level wage structure to the aesthetic blight of its cookie-cutter proliferation. But the Los Angeles experience was vindication of enlightened social policies begun more than three decades ago. The late...