Word: nonutilitarian
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...witty and episodically lurid sharpness, argues otherwise, and has been doing so for nearly 30 years. To complicate matters, Price plays with traditional forms of useful ceramics such as the cup and the vase without producing a usable object: they become a sort of armature for flights of entirely nonutilitarian fantasy...
Refound Ancestors. The art that followed-nonobjective, nonemotional and nonutilitarian-was, and for the most part still is, anathema to the common man. To the suprematists, it was an epochal breakthrough, even though Malevich later recalled that he felt "a kind of timidity bordering on fear when I was called upon to leave the world of will and idea in which I had lived and worked; but the blissful feeling of liberating nonobjectivity drew me into the desert, where nothing is real but feeling...
Following the Marshall Plan's precepts, the German government allows the money to be invested only in needed ventures. One nonutilitarian item is deducted each year from the fund. It is a Dankesspende (gift of thanks) to the American people, which this year amounts to $330,000 and will provide one year's free study for 60 U.S. students in West Germany...
...rather than a sex lure. Muskrat glands, a cheap by-product of the fur trade, did work. The muskrat substance is not a very pleasant smell, but a lucky chemist discovered that he could split its molecules in two, turning it into a blockbusting fragrance not unlike musk. (The nonutilitarian musk ox simply smells...
...time she had insisted on signing her maiden name to an important bill-and then hysterically refused to admit that she had done it. And what had her psychiatrist meant when he talked, in his mysterious jargon, about Corinne's "association with a type of love which was nonutilitarian, not productive of children...