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A vigorous partisan in the art groups of Moscow before, during and after the ^ revolution, Malevich invented a new art movement, consisting essentially of himself: Suprematism. It was based on a slippery idea with vast meaning to him, zaum. It meant "beyond reason": zaum stood for a dismantling of artistic...
The word stumbles awkwardly off the tongue, all 16 didactic letters, sounding like a fuzzy echo from a long-ago college lecture. Communitarianism. Was it a late-medieval religious heresy, a 19th century utopian philosophy or an aesthetic theory that predated socialist realism? The correct answer is none of the...
A Crimson review of February 15 (Visible for a Change) attempted an aesthetic critique based on implied "universal" standards of the slide-show installation, Visible for a Change: Contemporary Lesbian Artists, U.S.A. That seemingly politically-neutral review should be understood in terms of its unstated political context. The very subject...
She is armed and dangerous, but her knockout potential is also aesthetic. Meet . the gulf war's first pinup girl: Jackie Guibord, 28, a statuesque mother of two who wields a shotgun and sports a trim pair of jeans in a current Wrangler advertisement. Operation Desert Storm's answer to...
But Assistant Secretary of Transportation Matt Kugin observed that "the basic problem of solving a safe road is pretty well handled [with Scheme Z]," despite its aesthetic and possible environmental shortcomings.