Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOING the reading till the end also means that the course paper is done with a very sketchy understanding of what the course is all about. This forces most courses to allow almost complete freedom in the choice of paper topic--and often people write papers that they might have written without having taken the course at all. In short, anybody who does not read throughout the year loses much of the educational benefit of the lecture system...
...paper should be the heart of the course, as it is at the graduate level. It should be judged in general on the basis "How much better is this paper for the fact that this person took the course?" Most papers would extend the themes the professor develops in his lectures...
...which photography affects one's experience of the world, of other people, of oneself. By certifying and documenting photographs become more important than the actual experience, enduring after the experience itself has passed. The world becomes something to be photographed, something to "shoot," something to put down on paper and look at later. Photographs are the standard by which the world is judged. Sontag describes the disappointment of tourists who find the sights on their vacations less exciting than photographs had led them to expect...
This frottage technique has a whole room devoted to it at the Busch-Reisinger show. "The Head" is an obvious example of the technique used to horrible advantage. Just as frottage depends on a raised surface beneath the paper, the veins on the head seem to run beneath the surface...
...pasted together, and remind us of the association between surealist art and literature, are strangely static and uninteresting as they hang, a quality which unfortunately repeats itself throughout the show. This is partially due to the limited nature of the exhibit--that it is mainly pencil and photoengraving on paper and therefore not so powerful or organically real as much work in oil. Hanging many of the works in richly carved frames drains them further. Most of them are small and yellowing, more deserving of intimate, informal presentation than encasement in the self-conscious, serious trappings of traditional museum presentation...