Word: aestheticize
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That design would have put the Charles River crossing entirely underground, eliminating aesthetic and environmental side effects. However, the all-tunnel plan would have cost the state and federal governments at least $1.6 billion--there times the price of Scheme Z and most of its close relatives.
"The Lampoon never gave it a chance and never looked at it when it was pruned," says Kelley. "I think that in their haste, this is what happened. I'm not going to take away from the building aesthetic."
When she died last week, at 96, after a two-month battle with pneumonia, dance lovers -- from young members of her company to the thousands she trained and nurtured -- could hardly believe that she had succumbed to any physical weakness. She was the reigning deity of modern dance. If she...
A vigorous partisan in the art groups of Moscow before, during and after the ^ revolution, Malevich invented a new art movement, consisting essentially of himself: Suprematism. It was based on a slippery idea with vast meaning to him, zaum. It meant "beyond reason": zaum stood for a dismantling of artistic...
The word stumbles awkwardly off the tongue, all 16 didactic letters, sounding like a fuzzy echo from a long-ago college lecture. Communitarianism. Was it a late-medieval religious heresy, a 19th century utopian philosophy or an aesthetic theory that predated socialist realism? The correct answer is none of the...