Much of art today has been diminished to a purely aesthetic pleasure, and one that many opt to visit for the promise of self-publicity.
"When Chelsea Handler does it, which seems to be every day at the moment to diminishing laws of aesthetic return, it's heralded as 'comedy genius'.
For a diminishing number of aesthetic purists, though, questions lingered: Was clothing design really art? Did the department's close connections to the fashion trade undermine its curatorial integrity, and, if so, did it belong at the Met?
The original culture remains evident in the islands, but the Native Hawaiian aesthetic has become diminished and diluted over the years through death and intermarriage.
A Fact writer said, "there's no distortion, no tape-hiss, no obvious underground signifiers... [but] this new cleanness and clarity to the Ferraro aesthetic hasn't diminished the hallucinatory power of his music... [the songs] will terrify you to the core even as they evoke the soundtrack of a third-tier Melanie Griffith rom-com or a forgotten Phil Collins B-side".
In short, art adds meaning to life, fashion is an art, and the fact that fashion is as much of a business as are movies (or, for that matter, publishing or the art market) doesn't at all diminish its aesthetic force.
Though this transferred power from the designers to the brand, and Calvin Klein remained a commercial force, its aesthetic identity and influence were greatly diminished.
Nest box programs (e.g., Cartwright 1997) are proliferating across the breeding range to bolster diminished local populations, as park managers recognize the educational and aesthetic value of this colorful warbler to the general public.
In 1992, the first published aesthetic study on botulinum toxin established that botulinum toxin type A safely and effectively diminished the appearance of glabellar lines.
Developers, whose ambitions increasingly defined city skylines, used their emancipation from height limits not for aesthetic enrichment but steeper rents; much as Boyd had prophesied, the architect's role was diminished.
Hart stresses the contrast between the architect's fiercely adventurous aesthetic -- derided by the play-it-by-the-book Palladians who dominated English patronage during the diminished late phase of his career -- and his calm, unassuming personality.
