Word: aestheticized
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Her coterie of loyalists expanded considerably once affluent women began to reject the gold-chain-belt opulence of the 1980s. "Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see that they 'get it,"' says Sander, who often speaks with missionary zeal for her aesthetic. "I see so many people following, and...
It is tempting to dismiss all this turmoil as academic. One who decidedly does not is Harold Bloom, 64, the occupant of endowed chairs at both Yale and New York University, the author of 20 critical works and the editor of hundreds more, and a Vesuvian source of erudition and...
Bloom's view of literature as a ceaseless agon between challengers and titleholders is interesting and, in some instances, true. Virgil obviously had an eye on Homer when he set out to write The Aeneid, just as Dante and Milton had Virgil in their sights when they embarked upon The...
This burst of black artistry is a by-product of an underappreciated American success story: the growing clout and affluence of the black middle class. Since 1967 the number of black families with incomes of more than $50,000 has quadrupled to more than 1 million, and with this increased...
Jones is not the only black choreographer to resist the aesthetic dominance of the late, great Alvin Ailey, whose masterworks were mostly composed to black music and whose themes were rooted in African-American history. The austere, abstract work of Ralph Lemon, 42, for example, owes a clear visual debt...