Word: aestheticism
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The more freewheeling aesthetic of children's theater--with its openness to fantasy, movement, participatory elements--is also energizing for adult audiences and creators. "You can never take yourself too seriously when the audience is full of young people," says Linda Hartzell, artistic director of the Seattle Children's Theater...
Noting that he has “limped off too many canonical battlefields,” Bloom insists that he has only three criteria for what he reads and teaches: “aesthetic splendor, intellectual power, wisdom.” At this point in literary scholarship he suspects ?...
Aesthetic architecture has a social conscience in the Graduate School of Design (GSD) exhibit, “Alejandro Aravena: X.” The design showcases 10 projects by Chilean architect and visiting GSD Prof Alejandro Aravena. One bonus for anyone interested in community development: the display includes entries for...
Additionally, Armageddon is an important piece of art. Bay’s neo-baroque aesthetic prioritizes the primacy of visual language over plodding dialogue. For example, instead of commenting on current debates in the field of cosmology, Bay sends a small asteroid flying into Grand Central Station. Brilliant.
This fidelity to art led Cummings to forsake many aspects of the non-aesthetic sphere. “He never held a job in his life excepting six weeks. Work would have been a distraction: his art was paramount.”