Word: aestheticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A Crimson review of February 15 (Visible for a Change) attempted an aesthetic critique based on implied "universal" standards of the slide-show installation, Visible for a Change: Contemporary Lesbian Artists, U.S.A. That seemingly politically-neutral review should be understood in terms of its unstated political context. The very subject...
She is armed and dangerous, but her knockout potential is also aesthetic. Meet . the gulf war's first pinup girl: Jackie Guibord, 28, a statuesque mother of two who wields a shotgun and sports a trim pair of jeans in a current Wrangler advertisement. Operation Desert Storm's answer to...
But Assistant Secretary of Transportation Matt Kugin observed that "the basic problem of solving a safe road is pretty well handled [with Scheme Z]," despite its aesthetic and possible environmental shortcomings.
Nowhere was Hammer's rage for fame more obtrusive than in his role as a collector of old masters and Impressionists, which he flew around the world as promotion for Oxy and himself. Hammer's proudest feat was his 1980 purchase, for $5.12 million (a big price then), of a...
Yet to visit the Ryder retrospective, the first in a generation, which has been assembled with meticulous scholarship by Elizabeth Broun at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 8), is to become sharply aware of the limits of the Ryder myth. He is like Poe -- so overwrought, yet so influential. One...