Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bold Experiment. To Harold B. Dunkel, director of the University of Chicago's precollegiate education program, this sort of work is part of a bold new experiment. A professor of education with a Ph.D. in Greek, Dunkel has long been worried about the "enormous gap in communication" between the...
The orchestra generally tours for two weeks at a time, then returns to Stuttgart in its two buses and 6 by 6 truck "to take the dents out of our instruments." The players carry their own music racks and chairs wherever they go, pay for instrument repairs and similar incidentals...
By any name, chlorpromazine is a versatile and fantastically interesting drug to medical researchers. Peppery young (38) Dr. Henri Laborit, who darts from experiment to experiment in his Paris laboratory at Val de Grâce Hospital, used the brand-new chemical on animals late in 1950. He found that...
In most of Lipchitz' work, there is evidence of a force and virility possessed by few contemporary sculptors, but, except for his earliest sculpture, there is very little conventional beauty in anything Lipchitz has done. Prometheus Strangling the Vulture II is typically powerful, but it is also unnecessarily cluttered...
...experiment more. He finds a surprising degree of Oriental influence in American art and a lot of new life among the West Coast painters. A standout illustration of all three points is Morris Graves's monochromatic Young Gander Ready for Flight. Seattle's Graves goes his own experimental way (TIME, March 15, 1948), but he is obviously more indebted to Oriental art than to the European. San Francisco's Ralph Du Casse, who also draws inspiration from the Far East, contributed one of the strongest pictures in the show: an edgy abstraction that appears to superimpose Chinese...