Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...museum could easily have borrowed around Cambridge, a last stronghold of the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus teaching method, which emphasizes perceptual rather than emotional qualities of art, has become the new academism at Harvard and MIT, where Kepes still teaches, Bauhaus style lectures will dwell on the physical perception of color rather than a particular style of painting. Carpenter Center's introductory courses are well stocked with Jose Albert's systematic color studies and laszlo Moholy Nagy's experiments with plexiglass and other transparent materials. Cambridge's resources seem too much to ignore--but enough regrets...
...cover story on President Nicolae Ceauşescu, Rademaekers spent three weeks in Rumania and could not "get within ten feet of a high party official." Needing some descriptive details for a cover portrait (TIME, March 18, 1966), he asked a Rumanian press officer for help. What color, for example, were Ceauşescu's eyes? The officer did not know. Nor did he know anyone who did know. "He wouldn't ask," says Rademaekers. "He couldn't ask. Finally, in total frustration I cabled New York to color them a safe, Communist red." Détente...
...based on a sort of iconic shock value-nobody since Marcel Duchamp had been so flat and matter-of-fact. Warhol presented a row of stenciled Coca-Cola bottles as a work of art, turned out a series of 32 Campbell's soup cans differing only in color and the flavor printed on their labels, silk-screened the same photo of Marilyn Monroe or Liz Taylor over and over. One could find these passive, no-comment images either dumb or threatening, according to taste; and despite Warhol's own efforts to dispel it, a belief grew that somewhere...
...Color Awareness. Though much of the book is about child rearing generally, it is made clear from the outset that the problems facing black children in the U.S. are unique-and severe. As early as age three, say the authors, black children become aware of their color and race; they observe the differences between blacks and whites on television and on the street and bombard their parents with questions like "What is black?" and "Am I black?" Sometimes a four-year-old will simply announce that he is white: "Children often want to be like people they want...
...children do not start asking questions about color by age four or five, parents should take heed. The authors advise: "It is probably best to think about what you are doing to turn off your child's interest in the question...