Word: projection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Hogan, professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School, will moderate the discussion. The panelists will be Roger B. Stobaugh, director of the Harvard Business School's Energy Project, Daniel H. Yergin, a collaborator in the Energy Project and a research fellow in Harvard's Center for International Affairs, and Henry Jacoby of MIT's Sloan School of Management and a participant in the work of the MIT Energy Laboratory...
...tide pools and the stray formations of boats seen from above -- these are Meyerowitz's chief subjects. The necessarily smaller show at the Harcus Krakow Gallery has fewer photographs, but features, in addition, a few pictures of empty swimming pools and nudes, and two photographs from Meyerowitz's current project, commissioned by the St. Louis Art Museum: one picture of a St. Louis cityscape, another of a baseball diamond. All these are photographed with something of the canny eye for pattern and electric combinations of color that guided Degas and Matisse...
...despite these problems, the Projects signalled important new directions, distinctly non-elitist directions, for the American arts. Not only did the Theatre Project bring theater to new audiences, but the Art Project brought massive murals to American cities and the Writers Project recorded the lives of "ordinary" Americans. Not only did a galaxy of stars emerge from the Theatre Project, but similar galaxies emerged from other Projects as well--Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison from the Writers Project; Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning from the Art Project...
...Arts Project--its achievements, its triumphs, and particularly its non-elitism--is especially important in light of a shibboleth long popular in certain critical circles. Elitism is held indispensable to artistic accomplishment; as John Simon recently wrote, "there can be neither true culture nor true art without elitism...
...there has recently been a resurgence of interest in the New Deal Arts Projects. The Writers Project interview cited above is contained in an anthology edited by Cambridge writer Ann Banks and scheduled for publication by Knopf later this year; another Writers Project anthology, Such As Us, appeared last year. Free, Adult, Uncensored is a welcome addition to the growing collection. And the nostalgia itself is a welcome reminder that sometimes an approach that rejects elitism can cause art and artists to flourish and grow...