Word: aestheticism
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Yet Twice Born: Beauty does carry a larger message, an interest in the quality of beauty and its identification. The aesthetic concern, however, hardly seems of a piece with other theoretical frameworks. Twice Born: Beauty tries for a ground-zero approach to art appreciation, asking for intuitive criteria available to...
The exhibit's traditional problem of finding beauty summons still more useful theoretical supplements. It presents a rather heavy-handed attention to the philosophical character of artistic experience-the gallery notes include a short reading list of classical aesthetic theory along with recent writings from the past 20 years, touching...
The problem of intentionality suggests that the mental, imaginative work is less the viewer's and more the purposive intent of translation-from the real world to the artist's mind, artist's mind to the real world and from the real world to the viewer's mind. Twice Born...
Fred Hood directed The Madness of George III with the intent of conveying an "aesthetic experience." The cast served this end with an amazing stage presence, recreating the idiosynchratic characters of a period piece, flavored with a few well-picked dramatic allusions. Prime Minister Pitt, for example, was molded on...
The production's aesthetic line is strictly followed with regard to sound, light and set design. The stage's austerity fits the well-known frugality of the historical George III. Interestingly, the sets seemed to be inspired by French republican and restoration art, rather than by the Georgian tastes of...