Sentences with phrase «for aesthetic purity»

THE YEARNING FOR aesthetic purity had been intensifying on the bohemian fringes of Paris ever since the mid-1830s, when Théophile Gautier railed, in a preface to one of his novels, against the expectation that artists and writers promote the prevailing morality.
Andrea Zittel (b. 1965, United States) investigates the human need for comfort and how it intersects with the modernist desire for aesthetic purity.

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In a sense it could potentially help re-contextualize a three - dimensional work, but we chose it for the purity and elegance it exudes as a unique abstract aesthetic expression.
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