Word: artes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Loehr's greates qualities was "his feeling that Chinese art was understandable, but in the end there was a quality in it that was always mysterious and unknowable...As a teacher he came as close to the work of art as we could hope for," said Maeda...
...native German, educated at the University of Munich, Loehr taught Oriental art in China, Munich and Michigan, before being appointed Harvard's first Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art in 1960 and curator of Oriental art at the Fogg Art Museum, posts he held until his retirement...
...successor as Rockefeller Professor, John. M. Rosenfield, called Loehr's 1953 essay on Chinese vases "one of the most important single scholarly contributions to Asian art...
When a film aims to awaken moral awareness, it may seem ungrateful to inquire how it discharges its obligations to art. But there are long passages in Hotel Terminus (the title refers to the hostelry where Barbie had his headquarters) in which the picture's failure to select and shape its materials seriously vitiates its power to grip and instruct our consciences. Worse, there are deeply disquieting moments when Ophuls abandons the documentarian's traditionally modest on-screen role as a reporter in search of a story and presents himself instead as an egotist in search of a platform...
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