Has art the right to aestheticize the trauma, suffering, and death of war? |
I think of Mapplethorpe as being the first artist to aestheticize the gay male community. |
What Benton's mechanics do, in other words, is to aestheticize the country's industrial-age obsession with efficient movement. |
Any effort to aestheticize or commodify art is an attempt at censorship. |
That is why fascists aestheticize politics, while socialists politicise art. |
At times, he seems to be exhausting all possible means and angles to aestheticize action and violence. |