Word: aestheticized
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When is a Christmas tree a pollution of the aesthetic atmosphere? When it is made out of light-studded metal "branches" arrayed on seven-story-high flagpoles and surmounted by the four-pointed star that represents the First National City Bank of New York. At least so says one of...
History is so dramatic, people frequently say. Apart from Shakespeare's works, there is scarcely a historical play in the entire canon of Western dramatic art worth an aesthetic hoot. An in toxication with history in the theater usually means that someone with the dramatic imagination of a file...
WILLS DOES NOT CONFINE his criticism to politics, though this is where some of his most perceptive criticism lies. He is equally critical of the liberal's activities within the Church. What bothered the American liberal was that the Church was too American. "It was not Rome he disliked in...
A besetting problem for experimenters is that people no longer expect to get their necessary information from art; it was this gap that the artist-made video tape promised to close. But an event does not automatically gain aesthetic meaning because it is recorded, handheld, on half-inch tape. Too...
There are no aesthetic criteria for dealing with such works. If some artist shows a clutch of Polaroids of himself playing table tennis, this is called "information." But who is informed, and about what? "Information" has become the shibboleth of the '70s, a vogue word, as "flatness" was in...