Word: estheticism
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Only in A Place Apart by Wendy Perron was a choreographer successful in sculpting beautiful, interrelated movements: this at moments was a kind of graphic art. At moments too. Whittaker Sheppard's sketch of death, Incident at Dusk, communicated a horror and panic that was intended. Despite her confusion of...
The Boston Globe phrased it nicely: "The titan of international architecture, harmonizer of the social, industrial, physical and esthetic needs of modern man, is building a pigsty." Admitted Architect Walter Gropius, 84, explaining why a man who designed the Bauhaus and Boston Center would stoop to a pigsty: "I lost...
To create their disappearing environments, Lloyd Hamrol, 30, Eric Orr, 30, and Judy Gerowitz, 28, donned white jump suits, white gloves and white sneakers. As Orr explained: "Making the sculpture is just as important-in fact, the same thing-as the art work itself." Visitors could join in the esthetic...
Accordingly, when it decided in the early 1960s to move from cramped offices on Madison Avenue, it called for a building that would symbolize its esthetic preoccupations and, as President McGeorge Bundy (who took office in early 1966) puts it, "give the best urban environment for working people." The new...
Undeniably, part of the scandal and success of Bonnie and Clyde stems from its creative use of what has always been a good box-office draw: violence. But what matters most about Bonnie and Clyde is the new freedom of its style, expressed not so much by camera trickery as...