estheticism
Americannoun
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Henceforth he classes the glorification of Art as one of the three most despicable attitudes of life: Philistinism, Pietism, and Estheticism, all of which have their origin in cowardice, represent three branches of the ignominious road of escape from the terrors of living.
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Religion has a depth which art needs lest it become tempted to estheticism.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is a sort of Reader's Digest to the world's philosophies, dipping briefly into Zen, Yoga, evangelism, estheticism and existentialism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the passionate imagination of love renders a loved one beautiful�and, in the process, stimulates the soul of the lover to triumphs of estheticism.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his 25-year career, Taylor has come to some other conclusions about his job: � "We in the art museums of America have reached a point where we must make a choice of becoming either temples of learning and understanding ... or of remaining merely hanging gardens for the perpetuation of the Babylonian pleasures of estheticism and the secret sins of private archeology."
From Time Magazine Archive
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