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Word: aestheticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Similarly the spotted owl. I am no enemy of the owl. If it could be preserved at no or little cost, I would agree: the variety of nature is a good, a high aesthetic good. But it is no more than that. And sometimes aesthetic goods have to be sacrificed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Saving Nature, But Only for Man | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

Now the concept of a "mainstream" is a phantom, an artifact of overcategorizing minds. The Tiber as a symbol of aesthetic transmission has been replaced by the Everglades. The idea of the "mainstream" is kept alive by pluralists, rather as Stalin maintained the memory of Trotsky -- as a bogey. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Romare Bearden: Visual Jazz from a Sharp Eye | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

The catalog's nagging about the "mainstream" seems all the more pointless because Bearden possessed a deep aesthetic education: he was immersed in the self-sufficient culture of Western painting from Giotto right through to his own time, as well as in African art. It may be that curator Sharon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Romare Bearden: Visual Jazz from a Sharp Eye | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

Now 32, the Michigan-born Madonna has three world tours, 20-plus music videos, seven feature films and eight albums under her Boy Toy belt. She has single-handedly created a boom in music-video sales. That the image refracted in the media-crazed mirror never settles is hypnotizing. Her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madonna In Bloom: MADONNA | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

"The West as America" comprises hundreds of items -- paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs, caricatures -- and is an enlightening exhibition, though not a consoling one. John Wayne would have disapproved. The exhibition shows how the vast exculpatory fiction of Manifest Destiny wound its way round the facts of conquest and turned them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: How The West Was Spun | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

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