Word: aestheticized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
If devotion to the works of Richard Wagner is a worldwide cult, then a performance of The Ring of the Nibelung is that religion's ultimate rite: a fervent emotional and aesthetic observance. Any opera house that is able to produce the Ring cycle -- four long, mythic music dramas, based...
The exhibit, notes Museum of Natural History curator Craig Morris, combines art with science to highlight the objects' aesthetic appeal and at the same time emphasize modern archaeological techniques. "Each piece must be understood in relationship to everything else," he explains. Alva and his team made sure that the position...
As if the Gehry building had not caused the American Center enough financial trouble, it has also created an aesthetic controversy -- but not the one anybody would have expected. Parisians think the building is too ... Parisian. Critics have complained that it is not bold and Californian enough. Gehry "has abandoned...
She made peace with the problem by asserting her own aesthetic. She had a stage built and invited performers like cellist Pablo Casals and the American Ballet Theatre -- a glamorization of politics that was unprecedented. More important, she redid the place, replacing routine reproductions with authentic period pieces and fabrics...
Ogden begins on a scientific note, discussing her sampling techniques and academic interest in the matter of female sexuality. For example, the Venn diagram on page 73 looks convincingly technical, apart from its symmetrical, aesthetic appeal. Normally first seen in high school math textbooks, the three intersecting circles help clarify...