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Despite its informality, Sachs's course was no pipe. "One of our first assignments was to memorize all the objects in a room at the Fogg," remembers Curator Lieberman. "And of course we did it." Sachs liked to teach more by anecdotes than academics. "He talked about all his purchases," remembers Curator Rousseau, "and gave us a sense of the tactics you have to learn. A museum person has to be fast on his feet-a scholar, a collector, a dealer and a showman all mixed with diplomacy. Sachs was all these things...
...style in graphics went on display last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art with 48 prints by 15 artists. In the opinion of the museum's print director, William Lieberman, the pioneer of the movement is Robert Rauschenberg, who in 1964 created a print called Shades, which was, in effect, an art-toy-graphic. He transferred bits of newspapers and magazines onto a lithography stone, then inked and printed the image on an acetate sheet, which he in turn laminated on Plexiglas. Finally, he illuminated the whole thing with a light bulb. The result: a movable...
Purists protest that such tours de force rely more on hired technicians and expensive presses than on the artist's guiding hand, but Director Lieberman doubts that the artist ever really loses control. Furthermore, he says, collaboration is not that new: "Holbein never cut his woodcuts, nor did Durer; someone else did it for them...
...honorary degree was Martha Graham, the dancer and choreographer, who was honored with a Doctor of Arts. Alexander Calder, the sculptor, also received a Doctor of Arts, and poet-critic Mark Van Doren, Professor of English, Emeritus, at Columbia University received a Doctor of Letters. Also honored was Saul Lieberman, professor of Palestinian Literature and Institutions and Dean of the Graduate Department and of the Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, who received a Doctor of Letters...
Paul Ba'muth '69, Syd Lieberman '66, and Clayton Koelb '65 will read selections from their own works at 7 p.m. tonight in the Leverett House Old Library...