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aestheticize
(redirected from aestheticizing)

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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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Walker elsewhere points to the aestheticizing of politics in a scanned collage of a banner and birds titled Solidarity, 2003, whose cartoonish quality would seem to undermine any nostalgia for protests past.
Please recycle: Tim Griffin on the art of Kelley Walker by Griffin, Tim / Artforum International
(8) In addition to historicizing, thematizing, and aestheticizing it and, more importantly, elucidating the tenuous relationship between abiku and those who would control him, scholars characterize the poem's abiku protagonist in similar ways.
A critical divination: reading Sula as ogbanje-abiku by Okonkwo, Christopher N. / African American Review
This aestheticizing of biblical passages is especially common in religious music.
From dogma to aesthetica: evangelical eschatology gets a makeover by Swenson, Joanne M. / Cross Currents
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