Word: estheticism
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Steel Blue. There is a monumentally unsettling force in Helen Frankenthaler's Blue Head-On. At the same time, a steely discipline is built into the picture. After years of developing her eye, she has found that many pictures normally "work" better with darker colors at the top. A...
In the late 1940s, the Abstract Expressionists were admired by only a few hardy critics, loathed by rival painters, and ignored by virtually every museum and collector in the country. With his fellows, De Kooning hung out in grimy Greenwich Village cafeterias, endlessly debating the new esthetic and just as...
Mosaic Observations. The reissue two years ago of Death on the Installment Plan helped confirm Céline's status as an important college-cult figure. Castle to Castle may mark wider recognition in the U.S. for Céline as one of the considerable writers of this century...
Idiosyncratic as Céline's novels are, they nevertheless offer a mosaic of clinically observed poor and pitiable people. Recent French novels, on the other hand, have abjured any attempt to examine man on a Proustian or Balzac -ian scale in favor of esthetic gimcrackery, narrow psychological study...
When it comes to men and girls, though, what December sees in May is fairly obvious, but what does May see in December? Christmas, wags answer; and not even the most romantic would deny that money and marriage are often intertwined. Still, today's unions of old and young...