Word: aestheticism
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“All of her work is very, very acutely sensitive to aesthetic issues,” Shakespeare scholar Stephen J. Greenblatt, the Cogan University professor at Harvard, said yesterday. “She’s a marvelous close reader of poetry. There are many qualities one would...
Enrico Cernuschi was a man of passion. Born in Milan in 1821, he was such a fiery supporter of Italian independence from Austrian rule that he was forced to flee to Paris in 1850. There he Frenchified his first name to Henri and channeled his energy toward more lucrative pursuits...
But aesthetic unity alone cannot answer the obvious question—mainly, how can you pull off a fast-paced thriller when almost all of the film’s action occurs in the claustrophobic confines of an airplane? The suspense in “Flightplan” lies in...
Several centuries later, José González, a young musician of Argentinean descent raised among the fjörds of Sweden, embarks on a similar aesthetic odyssey with his debut album “Veneer.”
The sparse instrumentation, as fundamental as a wax pencil drawing or a series of black and white engravings, perfectly reflects his aesthetic.