Word: aestheticized
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Trash is chic, and connoisseurs of bad films proliferate like maggots on the corpse of culture. Some of them make new movies as homages to the seminal schlock of the 1950s. Others compile scenes from old B movies for the derisive pleasure of the hip. And a few review these...
At the same time Bourgeois's imagination has a nasty side, as real acts of exorcism must. The fantasies her art expels into the chaste gallery space have as much to do with incest and cannibalism as with the more usual aesthetic satisfactions of MOMA. The most vivid of...
And a good thing too. Atlantic High will not displace Two Years Before the Mast or Moby Dick from even the most loyal conservative's bookshelf; Buckley's voyage is a piece of cake compared with those undertaken by Richard Henry Dana Jr. or Herman Melville. The storms...
The retrospective of some 150 Avery oils and watercolors, organized by Barbara Haskell to open the Whitney Museum's fall season, can show only a fraction of this output. But it is a delectable fragment. It will also provide plenty of fuel for reassessment. Nobody could call Avery a...
Other painters, however, had no illusions about his merits. Mark Rothko treated him as a master-appropriately, since Rothko's glowing, blur-edged rectangles, now so prized as icons of American romanticism, were largely derived from Avery's landscapes. Avery's influence on American abstract painting in...