Word: aestheticized
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To some, like Writer Pete Hamill, the unusual family to which both men belong is an American version of the Castle Irish, a hated nobility. To admirers, the Buckleys represent what is good in family life: unselfconscious affection, vitality, devotion to excellence, a felicitous mix of principle and hedonism. The...
IF YOU'VE ever wondered what beauty there is in the kitchen cat or in a pregnant woman in the bathtub, then you've probably never tried to compose an aesthetic for photography. In the current exhibition at M.I.T., Minor White, professor and director of the Creative Photography Laboratory, has...
Minor White could have called his photo exhibit, In Search of A New Aesthetic: Be-ingness as Ideal Form. What White means by "be-ingness" is exemplified by the difference in the relationships between the photographer and his model and between the artist and his model. Where the photographer must...
Surely no two phenomena could be more incompatible-in the abstract. The abstract being that two-dimensional landscape of rhetoric and copulative verbs that permits such phantasmagoria as the preceding paragraph. Bitter tears, dear reader, on my copy of What Is Cinema? Open City, Voyage to Italy, General Della Rovere...
Here is a comedy, pretending not to be. The war of oil against water. It is as if Rossellini scoured history to find an aesthetic most antithetical to his own, and once he had found it he let it run amuck. For this reason, Louis differs from almost every other...