Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once more a single object of art has been given the position of importance on the first landing of the stairway at the Fogg Art Museum. A Greek Athlete's head of the fourth century B. C. has been chosen. Due to the slightly swollen and flattened ears the well-preserved head of beautiful Parian marble is said to be that of an athlete. Although these ears have been curiously neglected in the carving, being little more than blocked out, the swollen and flattened appearance mentioned above is often found in heads of Greek athletes due to heavy blows received...
...ceases to serve its purpose. The cultivation of the individual less not consist merely of instilling practical and intellectual knowledge into him it consists of much more than that. The counting out of his personality by contact with the wide variety of his contemporaries for example, is also an object of any really worthy secondary school. It has always been the boast of Exeter that her students have accomplished exactly this by constant mingling in the classroom, on the campus, and on the athletic fields. Will the segregation of small numbers of students be detrimental to the rounding...
...where only cactus grew. There he found fragrant roses blooming, plucked them, took them in his tilma (rough blanket) to the bishop. When the tilma was unfolded, imprinted on it was a miraculous image of the Virgin. A chapel was speedily built on the hill; the image became an object of veneration, was named Guadalupe after the famed Spanish shrine. In the 17th Century the validity of the apparition was accorded Papal recognition; in the 18th Century the Virgin Mary was by a Papal Bull declared Mexico's Patroness and Protectress. Religious enthusiasm was unbounded...
...important aspects of the subject. It has a tendency to teach art from a purely factual point of view, which is both important and necessary, but which ought not to be the only approach. The fundamental basis of fine arts, the value of it, why one object is more important than another, or why people should study art at all, this part is to a large measure overlooked...
...that Journalism's hard-worked handmaiden, Photography, is a fine art in its own right. Art galleries have exhibited photographers' prints between painting shows. For the first time last week an art gallery opened in New York to make the exhibition and sale of photographs its main object...