Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mime Enters is only chilled by what is commonly known as "interpretive dancing." One thing that prompted her to write about her own work was the feeling that "this Pure Dance had been getting away with esthetic murder long enough." But the strongest impulse to express herself otherwise than in...
U. S Painting. As aware of European styles as ever before, U. S. artists last year showed a maturing independence of them. Nineteen thirty-seven opened with the important Surrealist Exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and closed with an exhibition of The Eternal City by Peter...
Collected last spring by enterprising Edith Gregor Halpert of Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, the Quest show was called "Children in American Folk Art, 1725-1865." Patrons included Mr. & Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins and other good Chicagoans. In one room were portraits of children by journeymen painters of the early...
Many civil engineering projects are architectural or monumental in character, and therefore adequate preparation for the profession of civil engineering should include, beside a comprehensive knowledge of the principles of engineering and economics, an appreciation of governmental organization and esthetic values. Here it is again evident that engineering education is...
Even in small U. S. towns where ten years ago anything approaching an esthetic gesture would rouse the citizenry to barbaric yawps, dancing is a form of art now highly regarded, whether provided by the Ballet Russe or the Hopi Indians. In Manhattan this week the newly cosmopolitan art of...