Word: grabar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand, says Oleg Grabar, Khan Professor of Islamic Art, the department's 17 faculty members include some of the world's foremost art critics, connoiseurs and historians. The department is regarded, with those of Yale, Johns Hopkins and Princeton, as one of the nation's best. And it remains unparalled in the study of Oriental...
...other hand, though, distinctly individualistic professors tend to build their own isolated empires, fragmenting the department and debilitating its ability to work as a whole, Grabar says...
...More members of Harvard's department have worked on the Pelican series of art than at any other university, but this means we might not spend enough time minding the store," Grabar says...
...grievances aside, the department is not one marked by profound discord, says Grabar...
Department members say they are not looking to fill a gap in a particular field, as is generally the case when departments have tenured posts to fill. Instead, Grabar says, the department has decided to search out a specialist with a background in many different fields--perhaps Chinese painting and early renaissance art, for example...