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aestheticize
(redirected from aestheticizes)

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aes·thet·i·cize also es·thet·i·cize  (s-tht-sz)
tr.v. aes·thet·i·cized also es·thet·i·cized, aes·thet·i·ciz·ing also es·thet·i·ciz·ing, aes·thet·i·ciz·es also es·thet·i·ciz·es
To depict in an idealized or artistic manner: "When they range too far from experience, aestheticize life too much, the pictures are disappointing" (Village Voice).


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The great cultural critic Daniel Harris has written, "Because it aestheticizes unhappiness, helplessness and deformity, [cuteness] almost always involves an act of sadism on the part of its creator.
Takashi Murakami: Marianne Boesky. (Reviews: New York) by Siegel, Katy / Artforum International
, the fraternal bond of Western civilization and enslaved Africans and New World Africans--a "twinship" that necessitates as well as aestheticizes the tricks and duplicity of New World carnival-masquerade (110).
Masquerade, magic, and carnival in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man by Shinn, Christopher A. / African American Review
In focussing on scenes of pity and compassion, the narrator of Theophania self-consciously aestheticizes the political.
Reinventing romance, or the surprising effects of sympathy by Kahn, Victoria / Renaissance Quarterly
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