Sentences with phrase «aesthetes who»

This fiercely independent artist belongs in a long line of American aesthetes who embraced an unadorned style, including figures as various as Ernest Hemingway, Barnett Newman, Virgil Thomson, and Walker Evans.

He described a conversation he had had after George Orwell's death with Cyril Connolly, the writer - editor - aesthete who had been with Orwell at prep school and then at Eton.

He is the hotel's ultra-refined concierge, an omnivorous aesthete who appreciates both sexes, a splash of cologne, and fillip of poetry for every occasion.

Temnikova & Kasela, Kris Lemsalu This looks like a reference to «A rebours» an 1884 novel by Joris - Karl Huysmans, who wrote about a rich aesthete who, at one point, bejeweled the back of a tortoise until it died under the weight of its own shell.

Not exact matches

Here's how Slavitt, who describes himself as «a skeptical Jewish aesthete of the late twentieth century,» translates the same passage from the «Hymn After Meat»:

The postmodern aesthete, that homo erectus appetitus, this featherless biped possessed of desires and wants, who makes contracts of convenience and who is vacant of love but vibrant with lust — this is very much the man of the hour.

Who's right — the aesthetes or the moralists?

The aesthete's favourite player, who apparently can talk the hind legs of a wildebeest and rejoices in the nickname Blakey after the character from «On the Buses», there is guilt attached to his inclusion here as Burnley fans like to claim him as their own.

Glenn O'Brien, the writer, editor, and aesthete - about - town who shaped the cultural identity of 1980s New York, has died.

He was also an aesthete: a photographer who divined the beauty in every subject — even the darkest — and sought to make it visible.

This is not to suggest that Singh — who died tragically young in 1998, and is surely India's greatest photographer — was a precious or narrow aesthete.

The American artist Christopher Kline is an explorer and aesthete, who integrates visual art, performance, and music into his uninhibited creative practice.

«The artists I like are ones who have stopped playing the aesthete — people who do not live other artists» biographies,» he wrote to Franz Kline in 1950.