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Ebullient Harry Bober will guide students through the art museums of the Boston area in his course, Fine Arts 14. Examining original paintings from various periods, this course is the answer to those who wish to escape the lantern slide method of Fine Arts 13. Fogg Small Room...
...lifetime, Bober has shifted from a struggling New York artist to a professor and respected art scholar. But he has not confined his research to libraries. Through a series of fellowships and grants, he has gone abroad over seven times, visiting continental universities and wandering through uncatalogued streets in search of art objects...
Near the end of his 1938 study trip, Bober journeyed into Italy and almost into the hands of the Gestapo. Misunderstanding the Italian order to declare all the money he had, he declared his Italian currency only. He could have been accused of leaving the country with more money than he had declared on entering. But, stuffing the extra cash into his shoes, Bober slipped by the Italian officials. When he reached down to remove the money from his shoes, however, a group of Nazis stalked into his compartment. The Nazis started a severe cross-examination of the frightened...
Most people buy their houses and get art objects to fill them, but Bober did it the other way around. He picked out his present home after forty-five minutes of house-hunting. "For me it was easy," he says. "I had only two qualifications for my home . . . it had to be close to the students, and it had to have a living room big enough to hold a favorite Italian painting of mine." Bober and his wife, Phyllis, live in a small white house behind Dunster, where he is a non-resident tutor...
Although he is enthusiastic about classical art, Bober's home is filled with art of all kinds. He feels that any natural material molded into a new form by human effort is a work of art worth considering. In teaching, he tries to portray art as an emotional expression. "The trouble with most art courses today is that they teach you too much about lantern slides and not enough about painting and sculpture...