Word: aestheticism
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Though not a benefit book, "World War 3 Illustrated" #32 (80pp.; $3.50) has a similar aesthetic to "9-11," on a much smaller scale, and with a more pointed agenda. First published in 1980 by a collective of New York artists, the magazine has become the singular vehicle for left...
He was filled with idealistic dreams of fraternal love and spontaneous world order. None of the painters in his circle were untouched by anarchist ideas, particularly those of Pyotr Kropotkin. Some, notably Maximilian Luce, were vigorous activists, marked down by the police. Signac was never that militant, but his best...
“The blue rubber is a great care,” Brown wrote to Neutra in September of 1938. “It seems almost impossible to keep it looking really well...I wish that at Harvard I had taken a course in how to finish floors as...
Her cool demeanor is matched only by her aesthetic perfection. Every time she slips off her coat, a chorus of “ooohs” and “ahhhs” inevitably follows. Even at 5 or 6 a.m., when the rest of the human species is droopy...
Despite the blaze of controversy that invariably follows him, Douthat prefers to take a philosophical, somewhat detached viewpoint. “I regard myself as a conservative in the aesthetic sense,”he muses. Expanding on this, Douthart tells how, in a creative writing class at Harvard, he...