Word: aestheticized
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The case centered on seven of 175 photographs that went on display last April. Five showed men in sadomasochistic poses; two depicted children with genitals exposed. Prosecutors mocked the claim that the pictures had aesthetic value. But the jurors seemed to have been swayed by expert testimony that Mapplethorpe's...
The unusual difficulties Pelli faced -- squeezed site, Carnegie Hall as partner and next-door neighbor -- are what have made the new tower so special and grand. "Constraints," the architect says, "are not necessarily negative. They force you to try avenues you would have ignored." Contextualism has been the urban-design...
Metropolitan might seem outdated to some moviegoers, but more will find it winnning. Admittedly, it is not as politically conscious as it could be. But all Marxist criticism aside, Metropolitan is a lovely, indefensibly aesthetic film that makes fair and engrossing statements about a dying American aristocracy, and those who...
I have to admit, though, that even having seen most of the photographs before did not prepare me for the sheer intensity of the images that I was confronted with. One aspect of Mapplethorpe's art that critics can agree on is his presentation. They all admire it. Even my...
But enough witticisms--I'm a critic, so the first thing I should do is tell you, in gory detail, everything that was wrong with the film. I will, in just a minute, and the list will be pretty long, too. There was enough wrong with the film that at...