Yet their manufacture and initial wave of popularity at the turn of the 20th century coincided with the development of electricity as well as the arrival of a new esthetic, Art Nouveau, on this side of the Atlantic.
A content analysis of free-format descriptions provided by the diners revealed that diners also took into consideration culinary skills and techniques as well as esthetic or art-related criteria (e.g., harmony, symmetry) in assessing culinary creativity.
They looked ultramodern and had an art house esthetic that gave them a cool kind of chic.
The active participation in the real estate sector by cultural entrepreneurs aided the conversion of esthetic proposition in the arts field to culturally valorized spaces for sale in the urban regeneration field and this was enabled by the elite's extensive connections with other powerful social agents in the business and the state sectors built over previous experiences.
"It's the same esthetic that collectors of Chinese art have always sought," says Becky R. MacGuire, a vice president at Christie's.
The human services are matched by the esthetic beauty, as the $8 million art collection and sumptuous furnishings in the elevators, halls, suites and even powder rooms do not feel "museum -like in the slightest.
Millenarian ideologies, fundamentalist religions, pseudo-therapies and panderers to notions of esthetic beauty as the aim of art, all set a high bar which can be disconsonant with the inner being of the casually depressed observer of modern existence.
The value that Art'e' purports to sell is esthetic or spiritual, not financial.
An ontology was developed as part of such project for describing works of art from several viewpoints (e.g., esthetic, technical) using the Protégé ontology tool [8].
The first type was esthetic factors and involve external esthetics.
Alan Kaufman: Avant garde art and literature are anticipations of massive esthetic, social and political changes to come.
