Word: aestheticism
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The album’s immediate highlight and cheapest thrill is the lead single, the throbbing “Still In Love Song,” where distorted vocals (strongly reminiscent of The Stills’ current tour partners, Echo and the Bunnymen) drone over a jaunty bass line. At...
“Writers read books for aesthetic success—it’s intensely important to them whether something works or not, whether it’s good or not.” Wood concedes that this approach may seem unusual to students unaccustomed to criticizing ?...
“It encourages students to do what they’re least confident in doing,” he says, “which is making aesthetic judgments.” Wood notes that it is something that he himself was uncomfortable doing at the age of 20...
Documentary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl [MILESTONES, Sept. 22] may be dismissed for her venality, but the godlike image we have of African-American athlete Jesse Owens comes from Olympia, her film of the 1936 Summer Games, made under Nazi auspices. This suggests that however much she cooperated with those in power...
In reassessing Sert’s importance in architecture and urban design, his legacy may not lie in developing a widely-appealing aesthetic, but in an ability to conceive and execute such ambitious buildings.