Word: aestheticism
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Never would Fo subjugate his work, though, to the blunt expression of such a moral message—no one knows better than a jester that to preach is to lose one’s audience. His worldview is made clear, rather, by the aesthetic that permeates his work.
Rasoanaivo seems loath to make any further concessions to foreign ways, at least when it comes to her band. The purist aesthetic of Tarika's music--"It's 90% Madagascar," she says--testifies to her deep suspicion of globalization. "No one knows the good and bad any longer/The target becomes...
To design its new addition, the Milwaukee Museum of Art picked one of Europe's most original architects, Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish-born engineer whose buildings and bridges are high-wire acts of structural and aesthetic daring. His centerpiece for the museum, in Milwaukee, Wis., is a tall sunscreen with...
A founder of the famed Seido Kaikan karate school in Osaka, Japan, Ishii, 48, has respect for the aesthetic and ascetic virtues of the martial arts. It's just that he prefers the martial to the arts, and he believes spectators do too. "To increase the popularity and visibility of...
According to Krogh, the Danish tradition of designers starting out as cabinetmakers has been going out of fashion recently. Now potential designers generally go directly from high school to design school, where they are taught basic concepts from the outset. "I still feel we are building on the cabinetmaker tradition...