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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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The equivocality underscores the curious thing about these photographs, which Bacher's framing draws out: Walter entwines the activities of documenting and aestheticizing his life, a tendency that both disturbs (in its implication that one's life, however violent the circumstances, can be considered a series of postcards) and invokes empathy.
Lutz Bacher: Taxter & Spengemann by Bentley, Kyle / Artforum International
There are essays on: the aestheticizing of scripture; Bakhtin on Tolstoy and the Bible; the novel and Protestantism (which argues for the identification of novel writing with north European and British Protestant cultures); Tom Jones, Methodism and Wuthering Heights; religious discourse in the early novels published in All the Year Round; religion in the novels of D.
Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000 by Contemporary Review
The cabinet was a wedding present to William Morris and Jane Burden in 1859 and may be viewed as an instance of both romanticizing the Middle Ages and aestheticizing violence in literary texts.
Chaucer's clergeon, or towards holiness in The Prioress's Tale by Czarnowus, Anna / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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