Word: estheticism
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In his quest for the underlying graphs that to him expressed reality, Mondrian became fascinated with the functional artificiality of the machine esthetic. In human terms, this translated into the Charleston; Mondrian so furiously loved the dance that when the Dutch government banned it he refused to return home. He...
"National Disgrace." Both the information explosion and the population explosion have forced libraries of all kinds to expand and to build anew at a spectacular rate, often with striking esthetic effect (see color pages). U.S. colleges alone more than doubled their annual library-building outlay, from $21 million to $58...
Cities on Stilts. It was a dictum much misunderstood. Le Corbusier loved the machine not for its function but for its economy of form. He preferred American grain elevators to Gothic cathedrals, but only because they were trim manifestations of a man-made world long removed from the saintly preoccupations...
Never on Sunday. Advertising on TV has achieved this growth despite the opposition of people who feel that it gives too much direct influence to the advertiser and of those who, like many of the British, consider it an esthetic affront. It has also been harnessed by numerous restrictions. Belgium...
Into this "vehicle of total esthetic possibility" Dante impounds the complete experience of medieval man-an experience bestial in its earthiness and supernal in its spirituality. Dante sees man reverently and sees him whole: as an ape and an angel, as a worm