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AS PART of its tenth anniversary celebration, Carpenter Center has mounted an exhibition of student work done in Visual and Environmental Studies courses over the past ten years. Every course, or so the curator of the exhibition claims, is represented by at least one piece so that the show contains...
Carpenter Center has certainly never claimed to be an art school that teaches technique to the bohemian artist. For Carpenter Center, as the exhibition makes so very clear, has succeeded in making art academic for the academic Harvard student. As an Economics professor might assign a paper topic, so the...
As the exhibition indicates, a favorite studio assignment of several professors required that a two-dimensional surface be modulated to create the illusion of three dimensions. Among the solutions were toothpicks glued to pieces of paper, nails pounded into wooden bases at different heights, and holes punctured in tin. Another...
Indeed, most of the work shown remains incomprehensible unless understood as a solution to a problem given in the design studio. Yet a basic fault of the exhibition is that the explanations of most of the problems are couched in such artsy jargon that they are indecipherable. For example, pieces...
Some pieces in the exhibition are quite striking and hold their own without the need of an explanation. Gordon Olson, while investigating the problem of color transparency in three dimensions, created an extremely beautiful plexiglass sculpture that produces different color overlaps and transparencies as the viewer walks around it. Perhaps...