Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following article on the place of the fine arts in a university was written at the request of the CRIMSON by Professor Oliver Larkin '18, head of the Fine Arts Department at Smith College. Professor Larkin was an assistant in Fine Arts here...
...have asked me to contribute to the present discussion with regard to the teaching of the fine arts in the university, a discussion provoked by the recent decision of Harvard's Department of Fine Arts concerning Mr. Robin Feild. What I have to say is, of course, the personal opinion which I hold as an individual. The whole foundation of my own fifteen years of teaching in art was acquired at Harvard; much that was taught me there I have taught to others during this period. Experience, however, tests theories and modifies the practice based on theories; and my present...
...world which undergoes so many major changes and which faces, ill-prepared, so many crucial dilemmas, men should begin to reconsider not only the meanings of art in our time, and the place of the creative artist, but also the purposes and desired results of education in the fine arts. Certain traditional functions of the college art department have a degree of usefulness, to be sure, which is relatively independent of these world changes, because they have a value which remains relatively constant. I refer to the preparation of the scholar-specialist whose activity will add to the sum total...
...regarded as a trouble some continuation of nineteenth century art, rather than a phenomenon which requires not only special knowledge but a rather unusual critical equipment for its comprehension or its appraisal. Few college graduates can say that they have given much time or much thought, in their fine arts courses, to Surrealism, the murals of Orozco, or the Federal Art Projects. Few scholars feel that these are fruitful subjects for scholarly investigation. In a publication which contains the results of scholarly research, I recently found, for the period between 1925 and 1930, forty-eight articles on mediaeval art, twenty...
...pops"--high C's--"swingin' that jive right around?"--more high C's--"How's about passin' the muggles?"--with still more high C's interspersed with some fine ideas...