Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program. In 1967, President Pusey appointed a committee to find a way to salvage clinical psychology in some form in the University. The report of the President's Committee on Training in Clinical Psychology at Harvard University, written mainly by Robert W. White '25, professor of Psychology, proposed the creation of a new graduate program in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice (CPPP...
...external pressures to make art academic through a series of high-structured studio exercises. According to Eduard F. Sekler, Hooker Professor of Visual Art and now director of Carpenter Center, opposition to the idea of studio arts at Harvard was prevalent. In testifying before a Faculty committee on the creation of a new department, Sekler recalls being asked "And what is the discipline of your department?" And even though the building had been constructed and in use for five years, it was not until 1968 that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences agreed to grant this new department of design...
...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...
...questionnaire administered in May, 1972, well over half of the concentrators claimed that the VES department was too theory-oriented. Only 8 per cent said that it was too creation-oriented. Approximately three-quarters claimed that they would like to see the department changed. The verdict--the department should move in the direction of creativity, away from principles and jargon. This meant less-structured studio courses and the introduction of many desired courses in painting and print-making into the VES curriculum...
...criticism obviously strike at the very ideological foundation of the Center. To ask that it offer courses in painting is almost heretical given its professed anti-art school attitudes. As one student remarked, "Teaching painting would be like teaching Communism." And to ask the department to become more creation-oriented in general is to fly in the face of its expressed statement of purpose. Art was always going to be a happy by-product, if it was ever achieved at all, at Carpenter Center...