Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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He hated the bogus mysticism that clung to interpretations of American art in the '50s -- the cult of the heroic personality, of expressive blood and guts, of the Artist as Fate-Defying Existentialist. "My painting represents the victory of the forces of light and peace over the powers of darkness...
Jamison's approach to running the troupe differs in some respects from Ailey's -- he encouraged dancers to discover their own mistakes, she is more direct about what she wants; he shied away from fund raising and publicity, she embraces both -- but their artistic goals are the same. "Her aesthetic...
Americans, especially women, have become captives of this damaging aesthetic standard. Just consider Julia Roberts. In an earlier era she would have been considered a victim of starvation. "More than 70% of women say they feel fat, but only 23% are truly overweight," says Dr. Arnold Andersen, a psychiatrist at...
High art, we are taught, resides in the lower depths. Misery breeds profundity, the argument goes, and it has a corollary: anything cheery is a gilded lie. Drizzle is real, sunlight a sham. To focus on the sunny side, and to find resonance there, is to engage in a kind...
The important distinction is between those environmental goods that are fundamental and those that are merely aesthetic. Nature is our ward. It is not our master. It is to be respected and even cultivated. But it is man's world. And when man has to choose between his well-being...