Word: aestheticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Big deal, you might say. Who needs more golf courses and sun porches cluttering up what's left of the American countryside? But whatever your opinion of the aesthetic value of their development plans, these people's constitutional rights have been violated.
But an older man sitting right in front of the stage seems to contradict Raymond's claim. Celebrating his 95th birthday at Averof, Harry Collias says that he likes the "different movements" of the belly dancer. His smile suggests that more than aesthetic appreciation is at work.
Because the arts confront the sensitive citizen with the difference between good artists, mediocre ones and absolute duffers, and since there are always more of the last two than the first, the arts too must be politicized; so we cobble up critical systems to show that although we know what...
And then, when Pop came along, his reputation was only a little enhanced by it. Davis had delved images from the commercial culture of America before the Pop artists were even born. The classic one is Odol, 1924, in which the bent- neck bottle of a mouth disinfectant is presented...
So he was shrugged off as a distant relative, at best, of whom the expanded art audience of the '60s and '70s knew little. In fact, the Met's show is the first Davis retrospective in a quarter of a century. For the younger half of the museum public, it...