Word: aestheticized
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Pure Vision. As the English experience shows, wanting, or even legislating, a national theater is no guarantee of getting one. When Manhattan's Lincoln Center complex was erected, many U.S. playgoers half-supposed that they were getting a kind of prefabricated national theater. The recent Napoleonic efforts of the...
Yet it would be hard to imagine a more succinctly truthful rendering of light on water and young grass. Here, Constable's "scientific" or descriptive impulse joins with the aesthetic in a moment of pragmatic freshness: not much painting looks as modern in 1976 as this must have looked...
Of course, Bowie was always more than merely jarring. To lump him with Alice Cooper, as many do, is a mistake. Despite Cooper's first name and penchant for mascara, his songs were as straight as the midwestern plains from which he came. Cooper's charm, nurtured by Zappa's...
Although they themselves may not have realized it, for many Italians Pasolini was a living symbol. He represented the darker side of an Italian psyche, the nightmare of the Italian middle-class. (As, say, Frankenstein was the dark side of the Romantic soul. And Pasolini was among the last Romantics...
Although cast in the genre's typically repetitive structure, "Format VI," one of Brenda Way's two works, ironically undercuts the idea of mathematical/conceptual/schematized dance. Six dancers begin standing in formation upstage. Walking forward as a line, they crouch nearer and nearer to the floor until lying belly-down. Pusing...