Word: intrinsice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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And so the word "collectibles" has entered the language. To the serious accumulator, a collectible is any object of intrinsic value and aesthetic appeal. Forget the bottle tops. The field by definition includes such esoterica as crystal paperweights and samurai swords, but anything that can loosely be called art draws...
But what, exactly, does it mean? On the most obvious level, it means what everyone knows: that money is losing value. But it also means that we are in the grip of a wave similar to what, in 17th century Holland, was known as the Tulip Mania. The tulip was...
Since there is no action in the film, dialogue is the only thing left to compete with the special effects, and the dialogue is uninformative, full of jargon, and plainly pseudo-intellectual--almost as much as unfriendly critics would have us believe the television series was. The non-effect scenes...
The rush to tangibles, including art and antiques as well as metals, reflects the spreading distrust of nearly all currencies after a decade of high inflation. People would rather bank what wealth they have in commodities and collectibles with intrinsic value that they can see and feel.
This patient construction, this sense of the intrinsic worth of seeing, combines with Chardin's second gift: his remarkable feeling for the poetic (rather than didactic) moments of human gesture. It permeates his genre scenes and portraits, especially the portraits of children; the gentle muteness that Diderot perceived often...