Word: aestheticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It is reassuring to know that many artists are indicating a renewed interest in aesthetics. To protect these artists from the potentially dangerous "outing" of their closeted aesthetic interest, they shall remain anonymous in this review. However, I suspect a tidal change. A critical reevaluation of the politicization of art...
William McDonough, consulting architect for the Wal-Mart project and one of the most visionary of the green designers, thinks environmental consciousness is not merely a new constraint on his profession, but has the potential to create a new aesthetic. It was the unfortunate coincidence of cheap oil and the...
Someday, an 80s revival will happen, and someday it will be interesting. However, we've but just recently sounded the death knell on the 80s, and most of us are interested in pushing onward. Revivals seem only relevant once we've forgotten about whatever it is we're going to...
During the 1980s, the Whitney was content to take dictation from dealers and collectors, so that its Biennials tended passively to reflect the fashions of the art market without showing more than an occasional glimmer of independent judgment. The 1993 version is different and scaled to a chastened art world...
No sodden cant, no cliche of therapeutic culture goes unused. If we are at the point where any attempt at aesthetic discrimination can be read as blaming the victim, is there any use in choosing anything over anything else -- or in holding a Biennial at all?