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...allowed for much more diverse houses, because it required many more blocking groups to be randomized, thereby diluting the character of any given house. But houses still retained strong personalities. For instance, before I came to Harvard, I remember being warned that Adams House was unbearably snobbish, artsy and avant-garde. When I got here, I found these warnings to be exaggerated; Adams does have these traits to a certain extent, but it's much more mainstream than I had expected. What I found out from older students, however, was that Adams really was that way. It was only...
Suleiman is the author of several booksincluding: Authoritarian Fiction: TheIdeological Novels as a Literary Genre (alsopublished in France in 1983);Subversive Intent;Gender, Politics and the Avant-Garde; and RiskingWho One Is: Encounters Contemporary Art andLiterature. She has also published more than50 articles...
Using the Loeb Experimental Theater to put on a student production of "Six Degrees of Separation" is a strange choice. After all, student theater has the rare opportunity to boldly go where commercial theater usually does not, mounting avant-garde or student-written plays that couldn't fill the Mainstage. In the last few years, however, "Six Degrees" has been both a Broadway smash and a major film; anyone who needs to see this play already has. The burden to put on a genuinely successful performance is therefore much higher; people are coming, not just to see the play...
...that the very idea of avant-gardism was fraying into exhaustion and deconstructionist footnotes, why shouldn't an artist try to be, as Kitaj put it, "an illustrator of life"? Can an art that isn't based at least in some degree on "the human clay" satisfy us for long? And what could such an art be worth without a return to formal drawing, in all its physicality and gravity...
More important, Delacroix's journey south to the Near East would become a model for avant-garde painters looking for purer and more intense experiences of light, locale and color than Northern Europe could offer. Van Gogh went south to Arles; Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and above all Henri Matisse would reach North Africa. "I have found landscapes in Morocco," Matisse claimed, "exactly as they are described in Delacroix's paintings." Morocco satisfied something in the early modernist quest for explicit, fresh, formal experience. And it was Delacroix who pointed the artists there...