Word: aestheticized
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German theater is probably the most heavily subsidized in the world: government grants are seven times as large as those in France, about 25 times as large as those in Britain and roughly 100 times as large as federal grants in the U.S. As a result, nearly 200 repertory troupes...
But Matisse was intensely interested in Muslim decorative arts, and it was their intrinsic style, not their use as exotic props, that affected him. He had been to Algeria in 1906. In 1910 he was bowled over by an exhibition of the art of Islam in Munich and by a...
The instrument offered more than aesthetic satisfaction. "My brother and I were overweight as kids," Fleck recalls. "So I didn't have a great self- image, but I found this thing I could do that made me feel good. I played banjo all the time and stopped eating for satisfaction...
All this would sound crazy to anyone who didn't know that it was largely true. As the world has accelerated to the fax and satellite speed of light, attention spans have shortened, and dimension has given way to speed. A whole new aesthetic -- the catchy, rapid-fire flash of...
Increasingly, in fact, televisionaries are telling us to read the writing on the screen and accept that ours is a postliterate world. A new generation of children is growing up, they say, with a new, highly visual kind of imagination, and it is our obligation to speak to them in...