Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Golden Section. Another tremendous problem introduced by CinemaScope is the question of composition-filling the frame with a satisfying picture. Western art since the time of Pythagoras has sanctioned the esthetic mystery of "the Golden Section." Applied to a rectangle, the rule evolves a geometrical figure about five by...
A Rumble of Principles. The audience applauded warmly, and the critics nodded fraternally. "Purely esthetic, absolutely logical," wrote Noel Straus of the Times. "As simple and charming as a Haydn symphony," said the Herald Tribune's Jay S. Harrison. "A composer with principles," rumbled the Journal-American's...
This could be accomplished, he said, through the development of three types of architects: the researcher, the builder, and the city planner. Most of what is fashionable in modern design depends of cliche, or does not achieve a pattern integrated with its surroundings, he stated. He stressed the roles of...
... I virtually reeled with esthetic shock when I came upon your statement . . . Such vigorous works as Robinson Jeffers' Roan Stallion and Tamar, or Conrad Aiken's Punch: The Immortal Liar, make Eliot's poetic vintage seem about as heady as a watered-down glass of school-picnic...
Linotying was under the capable mishandling of the erratic and esthetic Dick Dyer in the twenties, and credit goes to him for about the worst "pruf hak (proof reading error)" in the paper's 80 years. A solemn theological article appeared one morning bearing the head-line, "Christianity: A Positive...