Word: aestheticized
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But what is the paradoxical nature of the reality of which he speaks? Is it the fawning of a placcid acceptance of bourgeois reality or is it the violent reaction of things white which the aestheticians of the Black Aesthetic found so debilitating? Writing in the 1960's Hoyt Fuller...
Yesterday some guy asked me whether the aesthetic of cool had any objective validity. I gave the poor fellow a quarter and told him to buy some Smokehouse Almonds. It's all you can do.
What then is Afro-American Literature? To begin, it is a manifestation of the ethnic and emotional consciousness of Afro-American peoples. Our aesthetic concern is about a particular kind of man, the Afro-American man and woman, who have emerged under particular historical circumstances and whose aesthetic sensibilities were...
My concern as a teacher and scholar is to find out what are the particular aesthetic forms which are used to capture the particularity of Afro-American man and woman in literature, through the explication of literary text. At once, therefore, I am concerned about the dialectical interrelationship of form...
The only "big" movement of the 1960s with an aesthetic that continues to be felt in the 1979 Whitney Biennial is, oddly enough, minimalism−a style made up of simple, primary, uninflected forms, usually garnished with tangled masses of oversubtilized criticism. Less, these days, does not seem to be...