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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MURDERERS AMONG US: THE WIESENTHAL MEMOIRS, edited by Joseph Wechsberg. In a style as spare and striking as Dashiell Hammett's, dogged Nazi-Hunter j Simon Wiesenthal recounts the career that brought 800 war criminals-including Adolf Eichmann-to justice, and made of Wiesenthal a kind of Intercontinental...
...situation, and the more quickly its potentialities are recognized, the better." To a considerable extent, universities are beginning to deal with this situation: campuses from Yale to California have acquired staffs of practicing artists as well as art historians. Nowhere is the picture brighter than at Manhattan's Hunter College, a city-run school that has, with a minimum of fuss, assembled one of the nation's liveliest art faculties...
Shown & Known. Because Hunter is located between Lexington and Park Avenues in the very heart of New York, the college has always been able to tap well-known "names," has long had on its staff such prestigious artists as Sculptor Richard Lippold, Abstractionists AdReinhardt and (until recently) Robert Mother well. But the problem every art school must face is that very few successful or well-known artists will teach by choice; once their work begins to sell, most would rather spend the extra hours in their studios. Under the leadership of Eugene C. Goossen, 46, who took charge at Hunter...
Since 1961, the art faculty at Hunter, including both full-and part-time teachers, has increased from 24 to 65. And in short order, Goossen's new teaching artists have made their mark in the outside world. Six out of 60 grants made by the National Council on the Arts last year to promising U.S. painters and sculptors went to Hunter teachers, a record for any U.S. art school. Half a dozen Hunter artists, including Sculptor Tony Smith (TIME, Feb. 10), were represented in the 1965 and 1966 Whitney Annuals for painting and sculpture. Recently, nine Hunter teachers...
...educate the artists of tomorrow is to "place the student in an environment that al lows him to discover the seriousness of what he's doing, the same as you intern a doctor by putting him in a hospital where there's life and death around him." Hunter offers a variety of artistic disciplines, from traditional life drawing to far-out constructions in plastics and wire, but the main emphasis is on a variety of liberal arts, on the theory that tomorrow's artists must be educated as well as trained...