Word: aestheticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most artists, one imagines, dream of achieving a great late style -- the uprush and resolution in old age, careless of aesthetic risk, sometimes even a little mad, that carry a life's effort into profundity. Few, obviously, manage anything of the sort. The retrospective of paintings by Lucian Freud, 71...
This use of amateurs is a first for Arena. It is standard for the co- producing company, Cornerstone Theater. When Bill Rauch, virtually fresh out of Harvard, and a few pals launched Cornerstone in 1986, the aim was "community theater" -- not some PTA revival of Blossom Time but updated classics...
Throughout his life, Zappa's music was both eclectic and uneven. At his worst he could be amateurish, as in the early Return of the Son of Monster Magnet. On guitar Zappa was no Eric Clapton, and as a band the Mothers were no match for Lou Reed's raw...
They are conducting both a functional and aesthetic evaluation of the rooms, seeing "how creative people have been and how much personal vision they have invested" both in using and decorating space, Weisman says.
PRE-COLUMBIAN ART AND THE POST-COLUMBIAN WORLD, by Barbara Braun (Abrams; $75). African sculpture and its influence on modern art is well documented. Less so is the effect of ancient American design on 19th and 20th century painters, sculptors and architects. Braun traces the aesthetic roots of artists such...