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...general Harvard community, however, Islamic art??s relevance is not necessarily its religious import but its undeniable cultural significance...
This testament to the ability of art??and Guillemin—to connect people with ideas or other people with whom they would not otherwise interact is just one example of the potential in Art Street’s goals...
...absorbed, transformed, and sometimes refused the historical traditions that it connected to,” Roberts said. In the vein of her wide-ranging scholarship, Roberts’s current project—“Pictures in Transit: Matter, Memory, and Migration in Early American Art??—studies how art travels and creates a web of communication between disparate sites. In her time at Harvard, Roberts—the three-time recipient of the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Excellence in the Work of Undergraduates and in the Art of Teaching—has duly...
...Beware of Expos classes with a lot of reading. Don’t take on more work than necessary by signing up for a course with lots of reading. From personal experience, we recommend Expos classes about art??paintings can be far easier to digest and formulate opinions about than tomes, even if you are not artistically inclined...
Existing alongside the ethical mode of evaluation is the aesthetic mode. Aesthetics are value judgments about the world, about its beauty, its form, its order. There is a simple pleasure in pure appreciation without any justification—what Susan Sontag called the “erotics of art?? in her “Against Interpretation”—but this too is part of the cloud of values and its modes of looking and observation...