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...tantamount to killing the university," snapped the president of France's Avignon University, Geologist Joël Mahé. What has aroused Mahé and most of his fellow French university presidents is a decision by France's tough-minded minister of universities, Alice Saunier-Seïté, to cut back proliferating graduate degree programs at the nation's 76 universities, which in France are both accredited and financed by the state...
...doctoral degree programs, mostly in the humanities and social sciences. Among them: a Sorbonne doctorate in educational sciences directed by noted Sociologist Vivianne Isambert-Jamati (who is a consultant to Saunier-Seïté's office) and Medievalist Pierre Jonin's acclaimed graduate seminar at Avignon...
...Already this year we've lost 200 registrations," complains Avignon's Mahé, whose 1,500-student school was denied national accreditation for graduate programs in medieval literature, modern literature and English. The minister also said "non" to six new degree offerings Avignon proposed in such fields as theater and medieval history. Students enrolled in rejected programs were obliged to transfer to other schools, often in distant towns or cities. Many of those unable to change cities have abandoned hope of advanced degrees. Angry student groups claim that 80,000 students will eventually be affected...
Even today, many decades after they were unveiled before an uncomprehending world, the early works of the modernists retain the power to startle. Picasso's cubist women stare out from the canvas with the faces of monsters in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye belongs more to tomorrow than today, as it has for the past half-century. Jackson Pollock is still a puzzle to many people, who appreciate only the fancy prices his paintings now fetch. That lack of understanding is what makes this eight-part BBC series on 20th century...
...Demoiselles is a brothel scene; there had been a whorehouse on the Carrer d'Avinyo, or Avignon Street, in Barcelona, and Picasso and his friends frequented it. But the picture has none of the social irony or even the sensuality with which Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas invested their brothel paintings. More vividly than ever, against the backdrop of earlier Picassos, it becomes clear why his friends thought he had gone crazy, why the painter André Derain actually predicted that Picasso would hang himself behind the big picture. The painting is freighted with aggression, carefully wrought. The nudes are cut into...