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aestheticize
(redirected from estheticized)

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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 passage from Bacon to Kiefer, for example, is keyed to Bacon's estheticized fantasies of sexual pleasure (rapture), which Francis links to Freudian notions of sexuality, art, and melancholia.
"Negotiating rapture: the power of art to transform lives." (art ... by Shiff, Richard / Artforum International
SR: I like the idea of looking at things that are revolting yet can be estheticized.
Bob's thing by Cooper, Dennis / Artforum International
I mean, there's still a distaste toward video in the art world, and in my opinion there's also an antiintellectual movement now toward pure, estheticized, beautiful objects, which is disturbing.
The art screen scene by Colman, David / Artforum International
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