Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says British-born, U.S.-naturalized Author Gibbings, himself an outstanding designer of modern furniture: The trouble with most modern designers is that they are less concerned with the customer's comfort than with the esthetic theories of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. In Homes of the Brave...
The plot has an immense sallowness, exceeded only by the banality of much of the dialogue. And yet authors Sidney Gilliat and Leslie Bailey rise sometimes to Gilbertian heights of whimsy. ("My dear," coss Gilbert to his wife, "how does it feel to be married to a transcendent genius?") Beginning...
The Golden Coach (Panaria Films; I.F.E.), made by Jean Renoir, a son of the famed French painter, is that rare product from the film industry, a work of rich, individual temperament. As he made clear in Grand Illusion (1938) and The River (1951), Director Renoir is often too full of...
When ballet connoisseurs start talking about the esthetics of their subject, the average citizen beats his way out of the pink-tinted fog to the nearest exit. George Balanchine, the most effective maker of ballets now living, has a refreshingly realistic way of getting down to esthetic fundamentals.
Death of a Playwright Sir: I should like to express the esthetic pleasure I got from your perceptive appraisal of Eugene O'Neill [TIME, Dec.] ...