Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caught a glimpse of John Harvard's statue through the Mass Hall gate and noticed that three students were sitting in his lap. Then we passed "Harvard Memorial Theater." and finally headed for our third and last 20-minute stop-the glass flower exhibit at the University Museum...
Phil told us about the exhibit before letting us out. A Southern couple across the aisle from me turned to their son, who was a big fellow about 24 years old seated behind me. "You going'?" the man asked...
Josef Albers, who is known for his rigorous color studies and 3-D paper exercises, is unusually represented in the exhibit by his photos; for example, his Garden Chairs reiterates his geometric, figure-ground play. Bayer ,too, has an unusual photo, unlike his prolific posters and typography (his invention of san-serif type); Surrealist Composition, 1937, is a view of unstable, never-in-full-view spheres and cones...
What is missing in the exhibit is the eccentricity of certain personalities such as Johannes Itten and Georg Muche who shaved their heads and dressed as monks, or Oskar Schlemmer's stage sets and ballets. Yet the imagination of Klee works, or even of a doll-house like representation of a Metal Exhibit (Joost Schmidt 1934) complete with boat propellers and model airplanes, shows the creative richness of the Bauhaus that encouraged a tradition in education as well as art. The Bauhaus brought art off its pedestal and seduced even the common Pygmalion; the Busch should bring such attractive nuisances...
...drifting away from Niebuhr's concept of constantly contending self-interest to revolutionary, third-world romanticism. He had decried "a too-simple social radicalism [that] does not recognize how quickly the poor, the weak, the despised of yesterday may, on gaining a social victory over their detractors, exhibit the same arrogance." It was a comment typical of his hardheaded, pragmatic realism in human affairs. His successor as the leader of Protestant thought cannot avoid dealing with Niebuhr's forceful logic; he will have to abandon it deliberately or build...