Word: aestheticized
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Mellon did not return to English art in a systematic way until the late 1950s, and in fact no more than a fraction of the prodigious collection of the Yale center had been assembled before 1959. In that year Mellon met his chief aesthetic guide and mentor−his English...
Indeed, Gardner is at his best when he's telling a story. At one point in On Moral Fictionhe leaves the aesthetic debate for a moment and begins a simple fable, to illustrate a point. The effect startles; we suddenly realize what Gardner could be doing all this time--telling...
The seedy brothel atmosphere that surrounds Violet is equally unexplored. How Malle will photograph the setting of the Storyville section of New Orleans is an obvious question, since the plot itself draws attention to photography. In his screenplay Malle crosses Violet's path with that of a photographer named E.J...
In the meantime, his books and albums accumulated: All in Line, his wartime drawings, in 1945: The Passport in 1954; The Labyrinth in 1960. As they did so, his reputation steadily grew, and he began to enter that choppy strait, much roiled by the currents of American aesthetic puritanism, where...
Steinberg, on the other hand, dismisses (or refuses to pin down) the idea of such a transition. What marks the difference between his work and that of the easel painter, in his view, has always been more a question of medium than of aesthetic fullness. "I think of myself as...