Word: estheticizing
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∙FLETCHER BENTON, 34, sees mobile art as the way of the future. "Kineticists are space-age artists," says the San Franciscan, and points to the small, spiky steel ball called Explorer I, the U.S.'s first orbital satellite, as an example of esthetic motion. "There's no...
∙HANS HAACKE, 29, follows the natural German bent for scientific phenomena. At 18, he painted boxy Bauhaus abstractions, but this art seemed too rooted in place. "We now know that there is nothing stabile. For centuries, people tried to convey motion. Symbols, snapshot representations, impressionism. All this was based...
Diminutive Presence. Now 41, Capote has executed an "esthetic experiment." He calls it a "new literary form" -a "nonfiction novel." It is an unfortunate term, as contradictory as it is pretentious. Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day, a reconstruction in novel form of the Allied Normandy landings, Lillian Ross...
Hard Choice. Mandelstam could have had an easy life if he had wanted one. Born in 1891, he was the only son of a wealthy Jewish merchant. His father treated him to a grand tour of Western Europe before sending him to the University of St. Petersburg and offered young...
Citizens and conservation groups have opposed the project from the start, citing both esthetic and historical reasons. Last week's decision, handed down in New York City, came in response to a petition brought by the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference and three local towns.