Word: aestheticism
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Such choices are nothing but aesthetic. The eccentricity of some of Manet's still lifes parallels the oddity of his large figure-compositions, the sense of incompleteness and off-kilter scale, that the critics of his day hated and later modernists were inspired by. Still Life with Brioche, 1880, is...
Of course, bondage as recreation and even an art form isn't new in Asia. Nawashibari, erotic rope binding, has its origins in 17th century feudal Japan, when samurai's servants took great care weaving hemp cords in intricate patterns to restrain, transport and torture suspected criminals. Today the art...
Two Korean films currently doing the festival rounds challenge both censors and viewers. Im Sang Soo's Tears is a mindlessly violent, sex-charged flick shot in cine-verité style in a hellish-looking Seoul. Full of pimps, prostitutes and drugs galore, it's grubby stuff with girls furtively...
Pope has a scratchy, dark drawing style that tosses characters and objects together in an impressionistic jumble. His influences seem more Japanese than American, particularly in his use of "speed lines" that turn backgrounds into a blur. Given the heavy amount of black in his work, American film noir seems...
As in any exhibit of this nature, the curator places heavy emphasis on the photographs as historical texts which raise questions about colonialism, Western depictions of the Middle East, Orientalism and way the western world used photographs to construct attitudes of "otherness." The photographs are largely selected for their historical...