Word: aestheticized
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Does Pop still live? Marco Livingstone, who organized the show, believes so. "Pop has lasted," he writes in the catalog, "because of its radical redefinition of the attributes of the work of art . . . In assaulting conventions of taste by subjecting their own sensibility to that of their sources, ((Pop artists...
The Opportunes' first song, R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People," is not suited for an a capella arrangement, and even Conal Murray's solid solo could not make the song provide any aesthetic pleasure. But, three songs later, when Alyssa O'Farrell started singing "In Your Eyes," the Opportunes began to...
Wolff said that Mozart's "Requiem," for example, can be fully understood only when a music scholar knows of the events that affected Mozart at the time of composition. "Each little detail bolsters the aesthetic presence of the work," Wolff said.
Never mind the aesthetic objection that Sale makes these people sound ^ suspiciously like a bunch of New Agers vacationing in the Bahamas. Discount the fact that Sale does not mention evidence of the Tainos' hierarchic social structure, which included, at the bottom level, slaves.
This work's clear political context is atypical of the show. Generally, the tension between adherence to aesthetic heritage and social conditions remains unexplored. This is most obvious in the case of Wang Hui's colorful masterpiece Southern Inspection Tour: Bennui Zhen to Changzhou on the Grand Canal. This work...