Word: aestheticized
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Salle's is formula art of the most obvious kind. Its peculiar smugness comes from the belief that appropriation is the best, even the only way for art to keep its power in a media-soaked environment. "By embracing the intensity of empty value at the core of mass-media...
There is something intimate about a Lacroix presentation, a revelation of taste and spirit that goes beyond the usual limits of professionalism. In fact, compared with Saint Laurent's aesthetic poise or Lagerfeld's streamlined efficiency, Lacroix's enthusiasm looks not quite grown-up, as if he were engaged in...
Hence its collection is uneven: strong in fauvism and the pre-cubist school of Paris but weak in surrealism, with some early Picassos, like the 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein, and the late Braques, like The Billiard Table, 1944-52, of ravishing quality; obstructed by (mostly) dull American figurative works...
All the twins took several personality tests, answering more than 15,000 questions on subjects ranging from personal interests and values to phobias, aesthetic judgment and television and reading habits. Twins reared separately also took medical exams and intelligence tests and were queried on life history and stresses. Not all...
In philosophy, the pragmatic, linguistic and analytical directions taken in the early part of our century are being replaced by the old-fashioned philosophical questions of how to live. Universities that only 15 years ago were promoting a do-it-yourself education for undergraduates are lunging back to the basic...