Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It is refreshing to come across a commentary on contemporary painting by a magazine that is neither cowed nor won over by the flood of inanity, fantasy and "uglification" now so widely acclaimed as art of importance and value. Your critic appears to be one of the few reviewers who...
Last week the 34 living members of the ancient Académie took a bold step in amending its reputation for crusty conservatism by receiving into their august midst a literary figure as contentious as he is unpredictable. The new member: Jean Cocteau, poet, painter, novelist, dancer, movie producer (Blood...
Joe's next pre-sunup chore was an esthetic delight; it dealt with 20 top-quality Angus steers soon to be translated into dollars and cents at the Tennessee Fat Cattle Show. Joe snapped on the lights in the main barn, climbed into the loft and scooped measured feed...
The Art of Stealing. Felix Krull is the son of a Rhinelander who manufactured unusually bad champagne and committed suicide because nobody would buy it. Felix is a precocious boy. At an early age he has learned to fake fits and migraine symptoms-he can even make his fingernails turn...
New Concepts. On his own Geneva atomic project, Steiger insisted on personal control of all details, called in experts to advise him on unfamiliar technological problems. His blueprints for the Geneva laboratory are uncompromisingly functional, yet harmonious. The steel and reinforced concrete buildings will be low, plain, widely spaced, and...