aesthetic principle
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Cage’s embrace of chance as an aesthetic principle had a profound effect on Paik, as did the composer’s attempts to break down the distinction between conventional music and other sounds.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2021
In the tradition of similarly made first features like Satyajit Ray’s “Pather Panchali” and John Cassavetes’s “Shadows,” it is a movie that raises pragmatic invention to an aesthetic principle.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2020
This is their recipe for never growing up, and Zeitlin appears to have adopted it as an aesthetic principle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2020
But it was hard for me to find fault with Sanchez’s underlying aesthetic principle: Popeyes fried chicken is fantastic.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2019
Fortunately the landlord had never heard the aesthetic principle that exposure of basic construction is more desirable than gaudy decoration.
From Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes by Jane Addams
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