Word: aestheticism
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But the wedding-reception aesthetic is exactly the point. Wedding receptions, like Dancing, are carefully constructed hipness-free zones--places where it's more fun to be a fool on the floor than cool on the sidelines. Where Idol is about show-biz amateurs trying to go pro, Dancing is...
Rather than simply take the historicist approach some of the members of the Harvard Club of New York favored, Bond considers the social and political contexts of the buildings he designs. In addition to aesthetic qualities, Bond examines the functionality of the building, and the culture of the people who...
A recent content analysis of tobacco-industry documents suggests that cigarette companies intentionally targeted female smokers through cigarette design—creating both aesthetic feminine appeal and illusions of reduced health risks.
Friedlander is fascinated by details like that, by how the meaning of an image can be brought to a head--or, even better, made more ambiguous--by its smallest elements. He also helped redefine the knucklehead weirdness of snapshot photography as a powerful new aesthetic. The foregrounds washed out by...
A recent content analysis of tobacco-industry documents suggests that cigarette companies intentionally targeted female smokers through cigarette design—creating both aesthetic feminine appeal and illusions of reduced health risks.