Word: estheticism
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Abraham Moles's newly translated Information Theory and Esthetic Perception is a book with one interesting idea, which emerges, crablike, from the murky burrow of Chapter Five. The idea is that realizations of a work of art--the performances of a symphony or play--are not uniquely determined by the...
In Information Theory and Esthetic Perception, the exposition of this idea requires 45 pages. The ratio of verbiage to original thought in the rest of the book is vastly higher. Moles, like many before him, has failed to see that a relabelling of old problems does not necessarily increase our...
Few nations have made art so much a part of life as Japan. Everything from tea drinking to wrestling and archery has been given its place in the esthetic hierarchy. And at the summit are those art masterpieces deemed worthy of the title "national treasures." In fact, they are almost...
Many other churchmen also believe that Christianity can draw from the secular present as well as from the sacred past. The 74-year-old Judson Memorial Church, in New York's Greenwich Village, has avant-garde movies, a dance theater, a theater, and an art gallery that was one...
He does use paint. Any other resemblance in the recent works of Enrique Castro-Cid to traditional artmaking is a backward stretch of the imagination. His palette also includes electromagnets, electric eyes, air compressors, motion-picture projectors; his gift is in knowing how to combine them deftly into an esthetic...