Word: aestheticized
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Three things can be said at once about this collection. First, it represents a decent and sincere intention. Second, it contains a smattering of respectable works of art: a set of Matisse chasubles from Vence, a cast of Rodin's Hand of God, some Rouault aquatints and so forth...
In Heilbroner's analysis of socio-economic systems, his treatment of socialism is also presented in extremely broad terms, as "the replacement of private ownership by public ownership, and the displacement of the market by planning." Socialism too is plagued by problems, especially the restriction of civil liberties. The economist...
Then there is the danger to the environment. The growth in population notwithstanding, continued search for resources by the industries they feed adds to an aesthetic and real destruction to our surrounding environment. Heilbroner's main concern here is expressed in his belief that the atmosphere's limited ability to...
The works on exhibit at the Busch-Reisinger, whether utilitarian or purely aesthetic in purpose, support Anni Albers's statement that, "The good designer is the anonymous designer ...the one who does not stand in the way of his material." The screenprints, lithographs, textile samples, paintings--even Josef Albers's...
Salvage Crew. Though Rohatyn knows better than anyone that he still faces a skyful of troubles converting these plans into actuality, he takes an artistic pleasure in having even conceived them. "It was very satisfying from an aesthetic point of view," he told TIME Correspondent John Tompkins. "The structure that...