Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mental hospital. As the authors describe over and over, the hippie myth carried by the summer travellers "Is continually at odds with the survival requirements of life on the Cambridge Common." This dialectic yields so bizarre a synthesis as James, an ace Volkswagen rip--off artist who decides when to steal cars by throwing the I Ching...
...remark. I think Mailer's subsequent career as far as I've kept up with it is a kind of self-resurrection to be admired. I do admire--not without reservation--Armies of the Night: there's a shrillness, and a willingness to accept your personal experience as an artist as metaphor for national experience...
...RESULT of his feelings about the primary importance of the artist in the development of ideas, Gropius's great concern was in choosing the teacher who could best communicate with and stimulate his students. The idea of teamwork was of primary importance, as we can still see today in the architectural firm that he set up, The Architect's Collaborative (TAC) Cambridge, a firm that works with a project leader--a head architect--who makes all final decisions but works with others to clarify his own scheme. It is not committee architecture where there are 10 people doing aspects...
...PHOTOGRAPHS at the Fogg (sponsored by TAC, Mrs. Gropius and the International Exhibitions Fund in Washington, D.C.) illustrate Gropius's ideas of education and his conviction of the importance of the artist's vision for the whole of human concerns and endeavors. We can see in a plan for the "Megastructure" of 1928 the prophetic concept of day-care centers and housing for equal sexes. An entire floor is reserved for children's activities and day-care facilities, while the plan for living units shows what Mrs. Gropius calls "total change in the social order...visualized by Gropius, a change...
...buildings by looking at these photographs; we are not drawn into the life of the structures, but only given a historical catalogue. Yet, the imagery of his buildings stands on its own, the form handsomely following function; Gropius's devotion to the arts and conviction in the artistic vision has been an overriding yet unproclaimed force in liberal education. It was Gropius's idea that the artist would be at the core of a liberal system of education. He had hoped to make Harvard his proving ground; "It was," says Mrs. Gropius, "his wishful thinking...