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Word: aestheticize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dan Lang is one of the few modern artists who has found a way of reconciling technology and nature. Most of us allow the technological age to alienate us from aesthetic experience. We can't look at nature without seeing beer cans. "Pop" and "Op" art have dominated the art...

Author: By Roberta Rattner, | Title: A Timely Exit From Anti-Art | 11/18/1965 | See Source »

"Op" experiments with the language of art and avoids all of the feeling. While fascinating mechanically it remains barren of emotion. It rebels against expressionism just as "Pop" -- with its emphasis upon hygienic reality and arbitrary selection of subject matter -- repudiates abstraction. This opposition to the expression of emotion and...

Author: By Roberta Rattner, | Title: A Timely Exit From Anti-Art | 11/18/1965 | See Source »

The quality of Lang's painting is excellent; and his drawings beguile us with a quieting nostalgia that makes looking at them well worth a trip into Boston. On the whole, the show sparkles with a fresh idea of technological man in nature. It suggests a way of reconciling the...

Author: By Roberta Rattner, | Title: A Timely Exit From Anti-Art | 11/18/1965 | See Source »

Peabody Terrace, Harvard's married students dorms and the center of a good deal of aesthetic controversy, has received First Honors in the 17th annual Honor Awards Program of the American Institute of Architects.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sert Receives Award For Peabody Terrace | 10/21/1965 | See Source »

The sycamore trees which line Memorial Drive near Boylston St. form a frontage for the Bennett St. MBTA Yards, the likely choice for the Kennedy Library. I.M. Pei, the Library's architect, has talked to MDC officials, including Whitmore and his predecessor Robert F. Murphy, about the Memorial Drive situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDY MAY SAVE SYCAMORES | 5/24/1965 | See Source »

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