Word: aestheticism
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To an extent, today's frenetic cross-fertilization in the industrial-design world is nothing new. As Graves points out, architects from Michelangelo to Frank Lloyd Wright have designed candlesticks as well as cathedrals. Never before, though, has there been such competition to define consumers' lifestyles. "There's a feeling...
With such a breakneck schedule, one would expect the music of Belle and Sebastian to mirror many independent domestic projects in poor recording quality, sloppy production and slackerly filler material. Instead, lyrics and music form an almost hyper-aesthetic experience--carefully produced, with fine-tuned instrumentation and clever lyrics. The...
I was just done with seventh grade, and had returned to my birthplace of New York City after a year's life in Texas. I visited a friend, and he showed me his CD player. It was a gray, futuristic affair that inspired awe (I still grin when I look...
Perhaps it is only fitting that Juneteenth (Random House; 368 pages; $25), Ralph Ellison's long-awaited second novel, almost 50 years in the making, would be published in 1999, the centennial year of Duke Ellington's birth. For Ellington and Ellison, along with the painter Romare Bearden, were practitioners...
MOTIVATION the Shaft aesthetic