Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THE subtitle of this work, "The Source and Genesis of Modernistic Art," describes adequately the scope of the book. Mr. Fry very ably and convincingly sets forth the thesis that modernistic art is a kind of neurosis that "has cast its baleful spell over American esthetic culture."
Chancellor Bowman met the three pedagogs in the University Club. First thing he did was to take them outdoors and point to a beautiful Gothic skyscraper rising through the city's smoke from the University campus. That skyscraper is Pitt's Cathedral of Learning, whose exterior is done...
Page upon page of the report was devoted to the Bowman personality. The professors found him "a man of extraordinary personal charm, unassuming in manner, always courteous but never offensively so . . . a man of culture sensitive to the esthetic side of life, a man whose true nature is that of...
From this point on the worship of the franc dominates the book as it dominated the books of Balzac. Marlise gets an esthetic pleasure out of contemplating her swelling revenues. She cannot walk down a road of Pargny without reflecting that so much of her money is in such-and...
* Above directors in Hollywood's economic, if not in its esthetic, scale are producers who hire directors, assign them to pictures, tell them how much to spend and are, to some extent, respon- sible for their work. Three of the most widely publicized producers in Hollywood: MGM's Irving Thalberg...