Word: aestheticism
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This long passage will doubtless astound the American audience, since director Andrei Kravchuck, in his first feature, is unblinking in his portrait of ordinary life in the former Soviet Union. The landscape is uniformly grim and tumbledown, most of the citizens of have honed their survival skills to a nastily...
By the time Matisse journeyed to Tahiti in 1930, the transformation was already well underway. While Pacific Islanders had woven pandanus fiber and painted mulberry bark for thousands of years, fashioning ceremonial objects of great spiritual and aesthetic value, these mats and tapa cloths would undergo a revolution with the...
We convened at 5 p.m. in the building at 1 Times Square (which is actually a triangle) for Treb's roll call, indoctrination and pep talk. As a member of this covenant I'm sworn to secrecy on matters of timing and mechanics - the technique, for example, for avoiding the...
Six. Put the mural panels in front of Dunster back in their proper order. As much fun as we might have trying to sound out what they say now ("Lev-duns-ma-rett?"), the aesthetic effects are less than pleasing. If the construction must continue, at least we could have...
The only film this year to fully realize the aesthetic potential of violence is “The Last King of Scotland,” a movie in which the depicted killings serve as a metaphor for the Ugandan genocide and thus magnify the atrociousness of Forest Whitaker?...