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In recent essays, cultural critic Ted Gioia questions whether beauty is becoming a lost art in our increasingly utilitarian world. He suggests that aesthetic values are vanishing from daily life, ...

The Gothic vampire aesthetic never truly vanished—it was ... the vampire as we know it in popular culture today is a human-like creature that feeds on the blood of others for sustenance.

Moving beyond the austere modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, mid-century modern design embraced a more human aesthetic while ...

A celebration of life in dark times: Andreas Dresen’s “In Liebe, Eure Hilde” is a tender portrait of resistance fighter Hilde Coppi, a member of the “Rote Kapelle”. In Liebe, Eure Hilde (From Hilde, ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Darwin, Charles R. 1881. The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits. London: John ...