Word: aestheticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are times when you feel that if you hear the words elitist or subvert just once more, you'll barf. So when MOMA's Margit Rowell, who in the past has curated some intelligent shows on Constructivist sculpture, Brancusi, Antonin Artaud's drawings and other topics, affirms that Polke...
Hanssen had most recently served as a BuntingInstitute Fellow from 1997 to 1998. She iscurrently is working on a book, tentatively titledThe Politics of the Aesthetic.
The creation of this aesthetic begins as soon as the theater doors open. Where one expects to find a stage, there is instead a dance floor. The actors, out of character, are milling about in costume and conversing with friends. Is this a play or a party? Is there a...
Because they are so focused on creating a full experience, all operas must represent some sort of aesthetic principle--the playfulness and humor of the early Mozart, the heaviness of Wagner. More than with a play or musical, all the elements of a well-done--opera music, costumes, lights, scenery...
The creation of this aesthetic begins as soon as the theater doors open. Where one expects to find a stage, there is instead a dance floor. The actors, out of character, are milling about in costume and conversing with friends. Is this a play or a party? Is there a...