Word: aestheticized
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No living photographer has done more than Adams to establish the difference between the documentary uses of photography and the aesthetic, or, as he prefers to say, "emotional." The landscapes on which his reputation rests are scarcely concerned with documentation at all. There are no people in them. They say...
What the tribe finds offensive, the literary priesthood hails as original. Zuckerman is granted an audience at the Berkshire retreat of E.I. Lonoff, a celebrated carpenter of ironic Jewish stories. To the young writer, art replaces traditions, Lonoff supersedes all spiritual advisers as the chief rabbi of aesthetic purity, and...
Can a horse embody that deep measure of humanity under the pressure of grace? If Tolstoy wrote the story, the answer is yes. And Tolstoy did write the tale that inspired the Russian play that has now been adapted to English with remarkable aesthetic fidelity for Manhattan's Chelsea...
By the mid-18th century, however, the old classicism was replaced by a new aesthetic. The purpose of art, philosophers and poets of the day argued, was not to impose an artificial order on nature, but to reveal, as John Dryden put it, "God's first idea." Mocking such...
The "Bloomsberries," as they were dubbed, were born into well-connected families and came of age during England's long Edwardian afternoon. Most of them met at Cambridge, then gravitated to the squares of London's Bloomsbury district. Although their communal spirit was strong, their gossipy, party-filled...