Word: aestheticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Spooky: There's a whole sense of what, to me at least, is the late-twentieth-century culture. We've been seeing an aesthetic of what I call recombinant. Whether you're dealing with the visual, photography, sculpture, painting, you name it. But the appropriation an reminding of different elements...
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...
South Gate's mayor, Henry Gonzalez, did more than a double take. Shortly after the Sanchezes painted their home last September, he dispatched members of his staff to take a census of the city's palette. They discovered not only a discordant aesthetic but a creeping challenge to the ruling...