Word: sekler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CERTAIN extent there existed external pressures to make art academic through a series of high-structured studio exercises. According to Eduard F. Sekler, Hooker Professor of Visual Art and now director of Carpenter Center, opposition to the idea of studio arts at Harvard was prevalent. In testifying before a Faculty committee on the creation of a new department, Sekler recalls being asked "And what is the discipline of your department?" And even though the building had been constructed and in use for five years, it was not until 1968 that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences agreed to grant this...
...CPVA decided that the new department would be concerned with "visual studies." In a statement to the Faculty Sekler described visual studies as the "manipulation of forms and media in a spirit of purposeful exploration, sometimes to an expressive end, but not necessarily with an aspiration towards the production of works of art--though not excluding that possibility which might come, on rare occasions, as a crowning reward." Clearly, the future government official would not feel out of place in the new department. Art would never be expected of him, merely the acquisition of skills of visual expression...
...considering technological means for security and increased surveillance--more people inspecting and checking the building at more times." Eduard F. Sekler, Osgood Professor of Visual Arts and director of Carpenter Center, said yesterday...
Concern over security mounted when a student working on a Visual Studies assignment was mugged November 1 at Harvard and Prescott Streets. The student was not hurt, and he did not lose his camera, but "it's close enough to feel close to home, Sekler said...
latest films. The extent of his influence has been enormous, Sekler said, and almost everyone in America has either "played with his toys, seen his films, or sat in his chairs...