Word: aestheticize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Craft and the Machine. Some admirers of the period value its creations for their sentimental value and assemble Mickey Mouse watches or Coca-Cola trays. More discerning buyers search for pieces of intrinsically good design. At its best, the style marks the first concentrated attempt to come to grips with...
Like his photography, Ben Shahn's paintings, particularly the series on Sacco and Vanzetti, reveal his concern with social injustice. He stressed the social function of his art rather than its aesthetic value. Photography he regarded purely as a means of documentation. He shot prisons, bales of hay, store fronts...
Can Barnett destroy a protest movement by leading a "floatin" in front of a Liberian freighter carrying grain for Royalists in Yemen? Impossible. Will Barnett make a mockery of the Camp aesthetic and win the ice-cold heart of Rosalie by memorizing all the shows of the Ted Mack Original...
Mobs of people, traffic, strain on City services-those were some of the objections the group voiced to the Shady Hill plans. But perhaps the underlying cause of discontent was the feeling that 300 units of housing simply wouldn't fit, that a development of this size would ruin what...
So the choice of the photographer killed any chance the project had of fulfilling the promise of the idea. One wishes Robert Frank could have been persuaded to do the assignment, or Bruce Davidson, or Ken Heyman, or Constantine Manos. Perhaps next time-Duncan's coverage was well received by...