Word: estheticism
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FOR the fourth time in six years, the Pulitzer committee last week gave no prize for an American drama. The committee is correct. No American play of the 1967-68 season merited an award. While it may pique national vanity, an esthetic dry spell is no novelty in the long...
Rumpus Room. The children's rumpus room of the U.S. theater is the off-off-Broadway café house-usually an operation that is long on valor but considerably shorter on value. Typical of this arena is Collision Course, a show consisting of eleven short plays, most of them...
In all, Schuller makes a most persuasive case for the argument that the beauties of jazz "are those of any great, compelling musical experience: expressive fervor, intense artistic commitment and an intuitive sense for structural logic." Who knows? If the slipper fits, music's Cinderella may one day even...
In its more elaborate manifestations, such as the swirling nonsense nebulae of France's Jean Francois Bory (see cut), concrete poetry has some of the appeal of pop posters, and the same sort of esthetic justification. But the movement as a whole raises an important question: Did Joyce Kilmer...
Yet, amazingly, the esthetic aspects of Dada and surrealism have never been presented to the public since the twin movements came of age. In retrospect, the hobbyhorse has been accepted by most art historians as a thoroughbred, but no U.S. museum has devoted a major display to it since 1936...