Word: aestheticism
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Mark calls himself a student of the aesthetic qualities of bondage. He particularly admires a form adopted from Hojujutsu, the art of restraining and transporting prisoners in Medieval Japan during the Tokugawa period. Mark says that when Japan modernized, the technique evolved into an art form. “Bondage...
CHRIS: Bill, you’ve picked a fine album but a difficult case. Sure, Wilson was a total freak at the time, but the songs are just absurd—the Mondays’ drug-depths do more than just dabble with abstraction. Pills ‘n?...
Although this effective introductory passage certainly intrigues the audience, the film never grasps the depths and subtleties of the themes it’s trying to provoke: It extends this air of sophistication and depth yet it never follows up on it. Bad performances all around and a reliance on...
Charmingly, the rough edges of the team’s production aesthetic are just as obvious as they are on South Park. The puppet strings are visible, the mouths don’t move very well, and the movements are stilted. That said, the movie looks very good, and the...
Tatar says she wants to create a new portal, one that “gives you the aesthetic side, but points to the fact that there are multiple meanings.” Annotations “emphasize differing moments we can enter the story,” she says, that...