Word: aestheticized
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Take Icarus by Breughel, for example (Auden did). Do we like it for its mythological content or for its rendering of the scene, or for what mixture of the two? Do we like it because we are able to tell our museum date some background information or because there is...
Once we begin to respect where and what we eat, macrobiotic and other restaurants which care about the quality of their food will proliferate. Eventually, we will begin to prepare it ourselves. We will find that the biological and aesthetic aspects of food are inseparable. Learn to treat food as...
Scriptwriters aren't the only guilty parties; visual and dramatic direction usually is worse. There's this aesthetic, if you want to dignify it with that name, going around, American audiences accept it because it has a vague respectability-by-association with Neo-Realist methods. This "aesthetic" says that instead...
Every technique that falls into the hands of these bankrupt meatheads is overused and thereby cheapened. They haven't the taste to restrict their expressive means to their slight ends, which would give us at least well-crafted films. By lending directors the license of artists the current "aesthetic" prevents...
Hollywood's new wonder boys have no guts either. Far from being seriously involved in the material they shoot, they don't even take the trouble to punch a little action and detail into it. In visual direction this means the old Neo-Realist aesthetic, that looking at events in...