Word: bauhausization
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...some things that are art--are on display at a rare Carpenter Center exhibition set up as a benefit for the New England Conservatory. The Carpenter Center show is made up of work by the students of Josef Albers, a man of squares who was a leader of the Bauhaus movement in Germany in the '30s and who directed the Yale design school in the '50s. One item from the exhibit is pictured on page one, and other exhibits range from watercolors to quilts to copporplate. Well worth seeing. Anita Briney
...architecture is probably as homogeneous as any in the world. International style, but Gropian above all, the Bauhaus style of the twenties. Most, of course, is the result of postwar rebuilding, but even the latest designs--like the five-or-six-story slabs that are everywhere--resemble corporate or public housing projects from between the wars. It is an architecture too simple and efficient to be just bad, too dull and repetitive to be strikingly good. Its geometry, however, is as national as it is technological: it possesses a certain likeness to the yellow stuccoed wings of the old Charlottenburg...
...inspiration of the new department was in part derived from the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus had as its core certain basic courses in the principles of design that included experiments in texture, color, and form of paper, and precluded the creation of works of art. One of the department's first Faculty members came from Illinois Institute of Technology, a Bauhaus that had been reconstituted in this country in the '40s. In addition, the CPVA was heavily composed of architects and architectural historians who were knowledgeable in the ways of the Bauhaus and undoubtably found them quite applicable to Harvard...
THOSE PEOPLE who worried at the time that Carpenter Center was to become an "adult nursery school" with lots of courses in "finger-painting" were appeased. Emotional release would not be tolerated. And realism was effectively nixed due to the influence of the Bauhaus. "Everything was to be scientific, nothing emotional," recalls James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts and a member of the CPVA. Harvard would teach a language of vision, nothing more. According to Sekler, "In 1960 it seemed the most valid way of going about...
Perhaps weakened more than other fields by emigration, the visual arts have been slower in returning to their pre-war stature which they typified by Expressionism and the Bauhaus. If the current graphic arts show at the Busch-Reisinger is any indication, recent developments have been more favorable, if hardly spectacular...