Sentences with phrase «of aestheticism»

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Later American Impressionist painters included: the Pittsburgh artist Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926); the Bostonian Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935) best known for his «flag paintings»; the Munich - trained portraitist William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916); J. Alden Weir (1852 - 1919) who excelled at landscape, still lifes and flower paintings; Theodore Robinson (1852 - 96), a close friend of Claude Monet; the Cincinnati artist John H Twachtman (1853 - 1902); Thomas Dewing (1851 - 1938) the interior and landscape painter, and follower of Aestheticism; and John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925).

This new American orientation encouraged art to become more of a commercial product, and loosen its connection with existing traditions of aestheticism - a trend furthered by the emergence of Abstract Expressionism, Pop - Art, and the activities of the new breed of celebrity artists like Andy Warhol.

Instead of the aestheticism and formalism of modernism, art became politicized, then socialized, then sexualized.

He is a tireless searcher who from the outset reacted against Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism and remained faithful to a kind of aestheticism, drawing his inspiration from the history of art.

Things go Dark presents a visual exploration of the principles of aestheticism through the work of nine contemporary Irish artists.

In breaking the mould of what art could be and freeing the artist from the straightjacket of aestheticism — a radical undertaking at the time — these artists can come across as self - indulgent after all these years.

The film, despite running a bit long, shares that purity of aestheticism.

But when history is understood (after Hegel's fashion) as the self - revelation of God, the result is a kind of aestheticism which in benign comprehension largely disregards the contours of history — nations, races, people, even the sufferings of individuals.

To detach the life of the mind from the duties of the citizen was to run the danger of aestheticism, examples of which disease, from Oscar Wilde to Ronald Firbank, were frequently paraded before us as evident causes of the weakness that had all but cost us the two world wars.

Because the indulgence of its aestheticism is in fact against the law, NAMBLA leads a shadowy existence and its membership tends to be secretive, although every once in a while it breaks into public view, causing consternation in the «mainline» gay movement that is bent upon assuring Americans that it wants nothing but tolerance while it is conducting a revolution that will change everything and everyone.

Not exact matches

The humanistic presumptions of New Criticism nicely fit the aestheticism of the middle class that dominates Christianity in America — at least the Christianity that produces intellectuals like us.

Allowing for the remarkable contrasts, Ker believes he can still trace at least one theme through the work of all six of his subjects, a theme that has little to do with the obvious «motifs» of English Catholicism such as «aestheticism, a love of ritual, ceremony, tradition, the appeal of authority, a romantic triumphalism, the lure of the exotic and foreign, a preoccupation with sin and guilt.»

The task of philosophical hermeneutics was simple: to clear the mind of intellectual barriers to that light, constituted by habitual modern concerns like historical difference, aestheticism, the perfectibility of procedures.

No doubt Rainey regards the publication of his book in this series as a gesture subversive of an outmoded aestheticism.

It is an inclusiveness which realizes the other person in the actuality of his being, but it is not to be identified with «empathy,» which means transposing oneself into the dynamic structure of an object, hence «the exclusion of one's own concreteness, the extinguishing of the actual situation of life, the absorption in pure aestheticism of the reality in which one participates.»

He has been accused of a general aestheticism which fails to take seriously the tragic conflict between good and evil, though his own motives are quite different.

Empirical theology moves from the post-Lockean sensationalist religious aestheticism of Jonathan Edwards, to the radical empiricism of William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead, to the «Chicago School» of theology, to varieties of empirical and pragmatic theologies at Yale and Columbia, to the empirical side of process theology, to a current revisionist empirical theology — which is fast becoming an empiricist theology that is better seen as a historicist theology.

And, coming so soon after the completion of the church model, Merrick's death is complicated by its very aestheticism, its poetry of religion in the achievement of immortal form: for now he is «straight.»

While they don't match the aestheticism of the other baskets, they are still very attractive.

The film is demanding, intellectually voracious, and reminiscent of Last Year at Marienbad in its brittle aestheticism.

For all the film's aestheticism, there's a clarity to this child's dilemma — conveyed ably by Hightower, who is a unique kind of actress.

Refn's relentless aestheticism isn't that original either: the glittery pollen clouds, a montage of neon triangles, blue and deep pink washes, and the stabs of synth on the soundtrack are so late - prog rock.

Known as one of the oldest monuments in Hué, its name is legendary, although its beauty remains genuinely real, extending towards the skies with all the aestheticism of such a picturesque creation.

Its pedestrian streets, outdoor cafes and parks make it a wonderful place to stroll, while there are plenty of museums and galleries mean there is enough art and aestheticism to keep culture lovers entertained.

That Mammen absorbed and worked with the dominant artistic styles of the time was obvious even from her early years in Paris and Brussels, and some of the earliest works in the exhibition — shown in the final room so as to contrast with some of her last — demonstrate the influence of symbolism and aestheticism.

One of the major recent exhibitions celebrating aestheticism was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2011.

As striking for their overwhelmingly yellow palette as for their fantastical imagery, Bohl's drawings invoke the signature style of British author and illustrator Aubrey Beardsely (1872 - 1898), who, along with American writer Henry Harland (1861 - 1905) co-edited The Yellow Book (1894 - 97), a leading British arts and literary periodical associated with Aestheticism and Decadence that helped define the last decade of the 19th century as «The Yellow Nineties.»

(That work, beginning with his landmark «Mining the Museum,» «showed me that the stakes of institutional critique could be higher, or perhaps deeper, than navel - gazing aestheticism,» says Mark Tribe, an artist and founder of Rhizome.)

At auction for the first time in 100 years, Golden Hours, 1864, by Frederic, Lord Leighton, a pivotal masterpiece of British Aestheticism, achieved a new world auction record for the artist, selling for # 3,274,500 / $ 4,384,556 / $ 3,945,773.

«Their serene, if stifling aestheticism», says the press release, «seems to suggest how the perils of isolationism and class indifference may stall the radical ideas of forward - looking members of society».

The bulky weight of the Pirelli building's floors bear down with the dark mass of a policeman's boot heel — though that sense of pressure can feel perversely liberating, a severe aestheticism not far removed from the tactile violence of S&M.

This concept of pure aestheticism was highly revolutionary at the time (source).

Tokyo signing Thumbelina during the group show Aestheticism, Beautiful Bizarre magazine at Vanilla Gallery Tokyo, Japan 9th of April

Group exhibition «An Aestheticism of the Injury».

In her own words, it attempts to «suspend the passive aestheticism that turns abject poverty into an object of enjoyment».

Leighton, along with the lesser known classicist Albert Moore (1841 - 93), also exemplified the creative philosophy of the 19th century Aestheticism movement.

He ventures into aestheticism because of its ambivalence and the possibility of hiding horror within false appearances.

He disputed the «elite, idealist, and purist» aestheticism of Greenberg and Fry, which «sought the pure centre of each art in isolation from the others.»

I will, though, take Kertess's hipster aestheticism in 1995 over the emphasis on «the geopolitical, the psychosocial, and the body's politic» of the 1993 Biennial.

They provide a platform for the celebration of a live experiential space whose focus lies in evolving a social relationship between the audience and performers, while maintaining a sense of visual aestheticism and spectacle.

His figures are portrayed in a landscape in which an American Comic - Aestheticism meets the Social Realism of communism.

Based on the wallpaper of a luxury hotel that Tuymans also visited on his Edinburgh trip, their serene, if stifling aestheticism seems to suggest how the perils of isolationism and class indifference may stall the radical ideas of forward - looking members of society.

: Visions of Excess reaches back to the 1970s to examine pre-millennial rumblings of alienation, aestheticism, morbidity, pornography, intoxication and madness in the art of Nobuyoshi Araki, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, and considers more recent works by Matthew Barney, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gilbert and George, Keith Haring, Gottfried Helnwein, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Yasumasa Morimura, Catherine Opie, Zhang Peng, Pierre et Gilles, Andres Serrano, Joel - Peter Witkin, David Wojnarowicz and many others.