Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was soon clear that the twins' livers were joined. But before this problem could be faced, the surgeons separated the rib cages, found that the hearts were surrounded by a fused sac. They cut it so that Jeanett's heart had a normal sac; Denett's...
The Shakers at their height were sternly anti-esthetic, considering beauty a snare. Yet their interest to the world is emphatically esthetic. The Shaker Museum at Old Chatham, N.Y., founded just nine years ago in recognition of the Shakers' unique contribution to American culture, already gets close to 9...
The Creative Act. Pasternak was influenced by an esthetic movement in Russian poetry that rebelled against the didactic, social-protest verse of the late 19th century. He was briefly drawn to the "Futurists." with their sprung rhythms and staccato, telegraphic style. But in many ways he also harks back to...
The audience might well have frightened any composer out of his augmented triads: it consisted of 600 moppets between five and twelve. Children, so the theory goes, are the ideal connoisseurs of modern music, because they have no built-in esthetic prejudices, and last week Venice's prestigious International...
They started to cut Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon (valued at $450,000) and Van Dyck's Daedalus and Icarus from their frames and then abandoned them. Though both are relatively low-rated by today's art buyers, the thieves probably were not exercising esthetic discrimination. For...