Signs of wear can
include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn corners, bends, tears, small stains, and partial water damage.
Not exact matches
The Summer, 1985
issue of The Velvet Light Trap featured essays on technical, economic,
aesthetic, and ideological aspects of Hollywood widescreen filmmaking, and
included English translations of some of Bazin's articles, where he integrated widescreen with his theories of filmic ontology.
Examples
include Patio Taller, a performance space and grass - roots educational center in the industrial zone of San Antón that organizes a «theater of the oppressed» to address
issues affecting their community; the collective transformation of the hillside town of El Cerro, Naranjito into a living mural that is socially and artistically charged; intergenerational workshops known as Escuelas Oficios (Trade Schools) that are recuperating artisanal traditions threatened by modernization and colonialism, such as weaving, lace making, and basketry; the revitalization of blighted properties and neighborhoods through participatory urban design of community centers, public parks, urban gardens, and food cooperatives; and the
aesthetic and physical reclaiming of public space through movement by artist Noemí Segarra.
The artists
included in this program employ a variety of techniques regarded as traditional and domestic, such as embroidery and crochet, using craft materials to address cultural and gender
issues in a complex intersection of artistic practices, popular culture, and
aesthetic splendor.
Established artists like SWOON, reimagine the Street Art
aesthetic, offering sophisticated commentary on economic and environmental
issues through work that
includes intricately cut wheat paste stencils, floating sculptures and installations made of scavenged, found and low - fi materials.
As such, his
aesthetic is inseparable from the pertinent extra-
aesthetic issues of the age,
including income inequality, the constant threat of reactionary politics, and the authoritarian abuse of power, as well as the fact of the artist's own queerness, all of which he allows to saturate his work even as he eschews polemics.
It is an
aesthetic that links many of the women artists who feature in this
issue,
including Barbara Hepworth (1903 — 1975), whose forthcoming Tate Britain exhibition celebrates not only her long life of radical experimentation (both in the creation of her artworks and also the way they were to be experienced by the viewer), but also how important an international figure she became, with exhibitions across the globe from a relatively young age.
Recently, legal topics surfacing on Tom's site have
included land use
issues («The
Aesthetic Value of Vineyard Restrictions»), international trade protectionism in Spain («Screw Caps Banned!»)