Word: vac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts comes on like a private place. Its ways are mysterious to the uninitiated and its works are largely unknown to the Harvard community. Last Thursday night, almost tenderly and with little fanfare, the VAC offered its films of the last year to the public...
More films will be shown late this week or next week, and I think that last Thursday's films should be shown again. People are not playing esoteric Bauhaus games at the VAC. In many ways what is happening there is as exciting as anything at Harvard. All sides would benefit from knowing just what that excitement is and where it will...
...vac idea is that you learn how to look at things, how to create things, and how to interpret things in the visual environment. For example, last fall's final exam in arch sci (next year called vis stud) 125 was a slide show of material studied in the course and only some of which were pertinent to the test questions...
...also seems extraordinary that so many positions on the VAC Faculty are held by Europeans. If there is a compensating reason for this unusual balance (American design schools are not very good?) that reason isn't evident to the student. To him, it seems possible that importing instructors Europe might be another way of lending legitimacy to the department. But part of this might be due to the lingering influence of Walter Gropius, former dean of the Design School, and the Bauhaus school of thought...
Lastly, some see a cut-off in how far VAC courses let you go above a certain level of competence in a field. There is always the possibility of do- ing a special project for credit--the only way you can go above that level of competence. But these are difficult to get approved. And if there is a tendency to favor a certain kind of project, it is for those of mixed or experimental media. A simple painting project might be rejected because the Center wouldn't want to legitimize what outsiders might consider a craft...