Word: useful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean for the House system, said yesterday allowing freshmen unrestricted use of the facility would be a great drawing card for the house lottery...
...free-swinging essays on the philosophy of art, Schapiro finds that modern artists have rebelled against the use of noble images--religious scenes, Greek myths--as the artistic ideal. They substitute for it a new "pure art" that "derives its effects from elements peculiar to itself," not from the imitation of identifiable objects. This anti-objective style allows for the creation of a "universal art"--one that cuts across time and culture and makes art intelligible to all. Abstraction protects the artist's freedom, which Schapiro calls an "indispensible condition," The loss of the decorum and restraint necessary to traditional...
...answer these questions, Schapiro discusses the social forces and the reactions to modern art that have influenced the artistic personality. Most significantly, the modern artist does not use reality as a source of inspiration but instead finds it constraining or destructive. To escape the confines of reality, the modern artist has abandoned the recognizable objects that limit the artistic imagination...
...Cezanne" is fascinating. Schapiro notes the central place given to apples in Cezanne's still lifes and explores the source of his choice of objects. Schapiro leads the reader through Cezanne's early paintings and writings to point out Cezannes's association of fruit and nudity and his particular use of apples to indicate "displaced erotic interest...
However, Horner reportedly told the group at another meeting last week that Radcliffe must restrict use of the gym because the college raised funds and accepted donations under the stipulation that the center serve only Quad residents and their guests...