Word: aestheticism
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The highlight of the concert, however, came after intermission with the performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, his adaptation of Hans Bethge's collection of translated poems The Chinese Flute. At this point, Ozawa was not only conducting the BSO, but also two singers, Ben Heppner and...
Beyond this high-grade sitcom, one of the appealing possibilities of The Alarmist is the voyeurism offered by the "door-to-door salesman" frame. Sadly, the possibility of venturing into the mansions of West Los Angeles and meeting the natives remains largely unexploited. While Tommy does go door-to-door...
In general, The Alarmist suffers from a kind of multiple personality disorder. Lines like "stop or I'll shoot" and "I love her and you took her away" alternate with weirdly sophisticated monologues on security and trust. The plot aims to depict paranoid modernity but misses, venturing off into the...
So here we are in 1998, two years before the 21st century, and you realize that here you have something that's a part of the aesthetic of pretty much everything you're dealing with, whether you're watching TV, switching dials on the radio or even just pressing play...
Spooky: I think it's an issue that the artist usually gives up control of the matter once the music goes out or once a critic goes by the gallery. They become the interpreter of the aesthetic. And to me what I'm doing is dealing with the notion of...