Sentences with phrase «willed uglification»

But it seems evident that the target must have been, in part, the form of life in which the affluence of the Reagan years expressed itself in collecting art, in «getting in on the ground floor» through acquiring paintings that were certain to appreciate in the way that Abstract Expressionist paintings had done - so that «bad painting» was a kind of willed uglification, a refusal to be complicit in the agenda of painting - as - luxury.