Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RESULTS of many British primary school experiments have been remarkable: exceptionally imaginative and colorful writing, a more widespread conceptual grasp among students of mathematical tools, and a heightened level of classroom activity coupled with a more purposeful, more self-directed employment of time. Detractors object that such skills do not prepare children for life in the real world, and that, on standardized tests, informally schooled youngsters do no better, if as well, than students in formal schools. Featherstone properly replies that "The best preparation for life is to live fully as a child," and that the better performance of formally...
...ARTICLE on "Education Toward Creative Design, in 1937," Gropius explained the preliminary course as"...a complete co-ordinated training of all handicrafts, technique, and form, with the object of team building." These first six months were then followed by one workshop of the student's own choice: anything from pottery to stage-design and photography. Set up in the Dewey tradition of learning-by-doing, a then radical idea of education, these workshops served as the core of the Bauhaus structure. The students familiarized themselves with their materials and with production processes, picking up practical experience uncommon for architecture students...
Chicago's partner, Abstract Painter Miriam Schapiro, explained that they were trying to dramatize women in real life, "not as the object of male art." Accordingly, the makers of the dream house dressed the front half of a manikin bride in white satin and posed her triumphantly at the head of the staircase. Their tableau extended to the bottom of the stairs, where the rear half of the bride disappeared into the gray woodwork, carrying her dashed dreams with her into oblivion...
...society they are art, magic, spir ituality and mystery. These are the qualities that women could bring to films." Critic Shevey maintains that the image of women in movies has hardly improved since D.W. Griffith's damsels in distress, and is still stuck in the axis between sex object and wifemother figure. Even in the new, "liberated" films, s he says, women are depicted as cooks and baby makers, "either imperiled or hard as nails...
...Straw Dogs. Women would bring to the screen something that celebrates life, that investigates its wider possibilities instead of exploring depravity. My whole approach to films since the beginning has been from a woman's angle. I've never portrayed any wom an as a demeaned object...