Word: aestheticized
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Mailer in his account of the Miami and Chicago conventions makes use of a certain objectivity for literary purposes--he refers to himself in the third person. But this is more than a mere literary device--it is a matter of form, and necessary if he is to maintain an...
The plan has the aesthetic perfection of a circle. People in most states of the Union get to vote for the man who is closest to their individual sympathies, and yet achieve a common goal with people all across the country with different sympathies who voted differently. People in Massachusetts...
However, two fine shorts run the first forty-five minutes at the Brattle, and might alone be worth the price. Both are art-house standards, and worthily so. Luis Bunuel's first film, Un Chien Andalou (a 1928 collaboration with artist-entrepreneur Salvador Dali), will either fascinate or frustrate with...
In an article in The Art Journal Coolidge assigned some rather large responsibilities to this community of scholars. He wrote that because the church, the court, and the legislature no longer command influence in molding opinion, the university has become a "tribunal of intellectual appeal," and the university art museum...
The museum today remains, despite Coolidge's innovations, a quiet, eminently civilized place, a refuge from an outside world which is more Dada and Surrealism than Currier and Ives. This quietude is conscious; the Fogg has resisted the kind of publicity New York's Metropolitan Museum gained from its disclosure...