Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York World reporter, who in 1889 completed the trip in 72 days, 6 hr. and 11 min. to beat the fanciful record of Phileas Fogg, hero of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days...
...scutlptures at the Fogg range in style from the smooth, sinuous grace of "Torso of the Figure Called Fruit" to the chiselled strength of his archer "Heracles;" from the classical serenity of his "Head of the Figure Called Strength" to the expressionistic grimacing of his head of Beethoven. Rodin created individuals; Bourdelle, types. He idealized, modeling a Hercules who epitomized brute strength and a nude who was simply a series of smooth curves, more goddess than woman. His nude and his Hercules look totally different, but they reveal the same approach toward art, the same distillation of natural extremes...
...Fogg has assembled most of Bourdelle's best and best-known independent works. His friezes and monuments obviously could not be collected. This is unfortunate, not only because of the quality of the work omitted, but because Bourdelle himself believed that sculpture fulfilled its highest function as an integral part of architecture. Bourdelle might have thought that the current exhibition gave an incomplete picture of his work. It does. But it gives a very impressive...
...Hunger of the Faithful. No one knows more about that evolution than Professor Benjamin Rowland Jr. of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, and a year ago he began organizing the first exhibition ever held on the theme. For Asia House in Manhattan, he gathered 70 exquisite pieces from collections all over the world, covering ten major cultures over 1,900 years. The show (see next two pages) is a perfect blend of art and scholarship...
...buildings that flank the VAC clash with its architecture, but more important, they represent institutions that have long been antithetical to the purposes of the new structure To the traditionalists of the Fine Art Department in the Fogg, the Carpenter center is a dangerous innovation which encroaches on the supremacy of the study of art history. For some scholar in the Faculty, creative activity is in compatible with the academic concern of a liberal arts college...