Word: aestheticism
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A room in the Gropius Complex, a hulking concrete modernist box designed by renowned architect Walter Gropius runs $3,190. Like Gropius's aesthetic, the accommodations are rather minimalist.
It may be that no civilization, East or West, attained a greater refinement in the decorative arts than Edo Japan. Ceramics, lacquer and textiles were brought to an extraordinary pitch of aesthetic concentration by a large body of artisans whose collective skills have never been surpassed, in Japan or anywhere...
The fragment aesthetic is carried over into the blocking and movement of the cast. In the interpretive dances that broke up the monologues, too many representational constraints were placed on the choreography to permit exuberance or even beauty. Each move had to mean something, and resulting dances were mechanistic, burdened...
The show was produced without intermission, so that, but for the dancing, the audience was forced up against the monologues without respite. Under the burden of the characters' problems, and in the recounting of their riot experiences, lives a realism far stronger than footage of a burning building or the...
Walker's grooming products, she insisted, did not "straighten" hair--even then, a politically controversial process--but she also sold a "hot comb," which did in fact straighten kinky hair, consciously tapping into a racial aesthetic that favored Caucasian features over "African" physical characteristics. Such celebrities as Nat King Cole...