Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A 1 1/2-page interview prepared for reviewers and booksellers by the author and his editor Robert Asahina attempts to explain Ellis' intent and confront the inevitable controversy. "I don't think it's a novelist's job to give little moral lessons," says Ellis. But making moral judgments is precisely...
The one who really pushed the boys to succeed was their mother Dolores, 53, a handsome, strong-willed woman whose strict Roman Catholic education gave her a sense of order that she tried to impart to her children. "It was very important for me," she says, "that they would have...
Nevertheless, though the show affords plenty of opportunity for aesthetic enjoyment, it is about argument, and works of art don't "argue" in a discursive way. Meanwhile the lost environment of popular culture to which they relate can only get into the museum as emblematic snippets, without the casual encircling...
The case centered on seven of 175 photographs that went on display last April. Five showed men in sadomasochistic poses; two depicted children with genitals exposed. Prosecutors mocked the claim that the pictures had aesthetic value. But the jurors seemed to have been swayed by expert testimony that Mapplethorpe's...
The unusual difficulties Pelli faced -- squeezed site, Carnegie Hall as partner and next-door neighbor -- are what have made the new tower so special and grand. "Constraints," the architect says, "are not necessarily negative. They force you to try avenues you would have ignored." Contextualism has been the urban-design...