Word: aestheticized
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Earlier in the century, she said, architects attempted to create the ideal home design which would resist the trends of fashion. When they found that their designs failed to take into account the nature of economy, which is based on built-in obsolescence, most turned to the production of "a...
FORTUNATELY, it takes more than over-directing to take the life out of a Gilbert and Sullivan winner like Patience. Gilbert's lyrics have vet to be topped by any songwriter for sheer cleverness: in Bunthorne's confession that he is an "aesthetic sham," to name just one memorable example...
A few of the 73 artists in the show, like Manet himself, or Gustave Courbet or Jean Frangois Millet, have secure reputations as masters. Almost all the rest, whose paintings have been exhumed and whose biographies have been researched with indefatigable diligence by the show's curator, Art Historian...
The instrument for expressing all this was his drawing. The existing corpus of Leonardo's drawings and notes is no more than a fragment of his life's work, now mutilated and dispersed; still, it runs to thousands of pages, some 600 of which are in the collection...
There is quite a lot of "narrative" art, disconnected accumulations of words and images that owe something to Jasper Johns, something to James Rosenquist. The most conspicuous new practitioner is a Texan named Vernon Fisher, 37, the only artist represented in all three shows. But political content hardly appears at...