Word: aestheticized
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"All of a piece throughout"-that, certainly, was true of De Stijl design. Its aesthetic was seamless, from painting to furniture to architecture, where it made few concessions to the flabby and imperfect human body. Gerrit Rietveld's penitential chairs, rigidly geometric and painted in their bright, winking primaries...
THIS IDENTIFICATION of political action with the creative impulse is the book's strongest point. While Cantor sticks to it, his writing stays clear and provocative--in his contention that Years, through his poetry, forged the Irish Easter rebellions into a "moment" of history; in his analysis of Joyce's...
I applaud your Essay, "The Poetic License to Kill" [Feb. 1], but it should have more strongly condemned Norman Mailer's oracular pronouncement that "culture is worth a little risk." There are people who are blind to moral values-just as there are those who are oblivious to aesthetic...
Maternity pants, it must be admitted, remain a problem. Most of them have an elastic belly that looks like some weird kind of mutant marsupial pouch; even size 48s and a set of suspenders would be preferable. No haute couture designer has come up with an adequate solution to this...
So he did-a latter-day Wagner gallantly reaching for the 20th century's Gesamtkunstwerk (all-embracing work of art). But he fell far short. Given the present-day disinclination of opera houses to produce untried, experimental and expensive new works, as well as a changing musical aesthetic that...