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Eduard F. Sekler, director of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, said yesterday that the outcome of the visiting committee report on the Visual and Environmental Studies department (VES) will probably reflect favorably on the department...
...Sekler also announced he will resign in June as director of Carpenter Center...
During one of the meetings with the committee, Sekler, Hooker Professor of Visual Art, said he wanted to devote more time to research, and that Robert G. Gardner, present chairman of VES, will take over his post in addition to the chairmanship of the department...
...release would not be tolerated. And realism was effectively nixed due to the influence of the Bauhaus. "Everything was to be scientific, nothing emotional," recalls James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts and a member of the CPVA. Harvard would teach a language of vision, nothing more. According to Sekler, "In 1960 it seemed the most valid way of going about...
...There is an analogy with language," noted Sekler. "Obviously the person who is going to write poetry in the end must first learn grammar, syntax, and orthography." The logic was that if a person was going to create a work of art, he must first learn such principles as color theory. Instead of waiting for a burst of inspiration, the point was to select a problem, work on it methodically, and in the end the creative moment would arrive...