aestheticization

Is this what critics term the "aestheticization of poverty"?

Witness to Bonds of War William Meyers 2011

But rather, there is a point to be made about the aestheticization of everything, and whether it makes us any happier.

Alex Henry: Of Greek Keys and Coffee Geeks 2010

But rather, there is a point to be made about the aestheticization of everything, and whether it makes us any happier.

Alex Henry: Of Greek Keys and Coffee Geeks 2010

In other ways, however, the more salient reference point for Tarr is perhaps Michelangelo Antonioni, who like Tarr was arguably concerned with the aestheticization of boredom, lending a certain sleek, awful beauty to the utterly dull and drab.

Damnation Ed Howard 2009

So I think the boom is not a media-led aestheticization of teen pregnancy as much as the reality kind of “popping out” into the Japanese media — and the girls themselves are aestheticizating it to their own subcultural style.

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The aestheticization of politics is really another name for fascism; the aestheticization of personal life is -- what?

Anis Shivani: The Best Books of the Decade 2009

The aestheticization of politics is the definition of the terms along the lines of "Americans don't run, so what do you call the people who want to leave Iraq?"

Perino: If Americans Don't Agree With Bush, They're Showing Bad Character 2009

Salgado inscribes himself in that tradition, although he transforms it by occasional touches—at once expressive and excessive—of extreme aestheticization. p.

swoonrocket jms 2009

McGurl thinks that the style represents the “aestheticization of shame, a mode of self-retraction.”

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

Juno is a good parallel, but it seemed to be the indie aestheticization of teen pregnancy rather than a “real” example of the average case in the U.S.

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