Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Your concise history of Philharmonic Hall's problems [Oct. 15] perhaps says that acoustic qualities are more the result of art than of science-as makers of quality musical instruments have known for centuries. Acoustics of a concert hall are judged solely by subjective comparison with prior tradition...
In discussions of art, Berenson was relentlessly dazzling: "Artistic creation, in relation to its creator, is like a hernia -it has the least possible zone of communication with his actual person." Furthermore: "We lack today, with our use of cement, any sense of resistance of material; and where the material...
In that year the Boston Museum of Fine Arts asked Stieglitz for a set of photographs to inside in its print collection. Early in 1924 Stieglitz sent the Museum 27 prints. The Museum collection now numbers 69 photographs, which are all on display this week. They begin with his early...
From 1902 to 1917, Stieglitz spent more time fighting for photography as art than actually photographing. "Every Tom, Dick, and Harry could, without trouble, learn to get something or other in a sensitive plate, and this is what the public wanted--no work and lots of fun," he complained. He...
At Harvard's Graduate School of Design, the search for rigor is partly expressed by two phrases: "from follows function" and "the human scale." In this issue of Connection Benjamin Thompson, chairman of the Architecture Department, suggests a purposeful departure from "artistic" designing towards an "anonymous architecture," based principally on...