Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But the third element that seems bound to fuel further controversy over the NEA is a verdict just handed down by a federal court in Los Angeles. In 1990 Frohnmayer, hoping to mollify the Republican right, introduced a clause requiring "general standards of decency" as a basis for NEA grants...
The other basic decision was to ignore four decades of technological development and present Guys and Dolls in the physical style for which it was written. Most modern musicals flow cinematically from scene to scene. Backdrops are rare. Scenes are often sculpted by bursts of white light on actors amid...
Few other paintings in his career show the same fine play between aesthetic intent and illusionism. Usually it's the eye-fooling that wins. The comment of a great American Modernist, Marsden Hartley, is cited by one essayist: "In Harnett there is nothing to bother about, nothing to confuse, nothing...
The defense of multiculturalism frames Gates' on-target attack on the right. The second essay, "The Master's Pieces," opens with a scathing assault on former Secretary of Education William Bennett and cultural critic Allan Bloom '56, chargins that they "symbolize for us the nostalgic return to what I think...
Instead, Gates says "we've got to borrow a leaf from the right, which is exemplarily aware of the role of education in the reproduction of values." Gates just wants to reproduce the "correct" values. And why not? The alternative is the teaching of the present "aesthetic and political order...