Word: aestheticized
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Under the present system, a great many students who can boast a knowledge merely of facts, names, and dates are awarded degrees in Fine Arts. Undoubtedly these facts, names, and dates are indispensable, but only as a means to a further end, the complete understanding and appreciation of art itself...
Besides this omission and connected with it, is the history of the criticism of art, or of aesthetic thought. It is obvious that a knowledge of what Ruskin, Pater, or Clive Bell have thought about art, or why the Baroque was condemned a generation ago and is today very much...
There is something in the American temper, something quickly sensed by European visitors, that tolerates an incongrous mixing of the practical and the aesthetic. As early as the eighteenth century, Samuel Sewall's diary records as a matter of course that Sewall's family, on an outing, sang psalms and...
The "Father of Imagism," according to the author is T. E. Hulme, an aesthetic philosopher to whose immediate influence in pre-War days on Ezra Pound and F. S. Flint may be traced the beginnings of the movement. With Hulme as a starting-point, Professor Hughes comes down the line...
It would doubtless be difficult to defend every aspect of the library from either a practical or an aesthetic point of view. But in attacking the artificiality in the building, the author of the "Nation" article becomes involved himself in a labyrinth of purely artificial distinctions. It certainly is only...