Word: ves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beautiful, sensitive films, theatres of that genre, and espresso. And these dislikes, though I seldom admit it out loud in this community of sophisticated film-goers, have remained with me through the years despite all the attempts to "turn me on to Bergman" by various friends who took VES...
...look at the course catalogue you'll see a few studio art, film, and photography courses in the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department but that's it as far as academic credit is concerned. It's not that the arts don't exist at Harvard; it's just that the Faculty hasn't officially recognized them yet. Harvard's very active Office of the Arts and many student organizations are the caretakers of the arts here. In other words, if you're going to give time to a performing art--one that you do with your hands or your...
...change the concept that art is something you do with your hands and not your brain." Ackerman cites inconsistences in the arts policy: While Carpenter Center provides several studio courses for credit, other rigorous, programs given by the Arts Council or other arts groups which are very similar to VES courses do not receive official sanction. "Theres no philosophical justification for this," Ackerman says...
...this mixture of theory and practice that so many professors see as crucial in winning the battle to get art courses for credit. Louis J. Bakanowsky, studio professor of VES and professor of architecture, this combination is crucial and he too strongly calls for the acceptance of art courses into the curriculum. "The arts should and do have a part in the liberal arts education. If they don't it's like saying that the arts have no part in life, "he says...
...films being premiered this weekend is by Carpenter Center's animation teacher, Kathy Rose, featured in argument with her characters in her film pencil Bookings. Much of the recent independent animation in the U.S. has been done by one-time VES 153 teachers and students. George Griffin taught it last year, Mary Beams Phillips the year before. Frank Mouris, who won an Academy Award, Eliot Noyes, famous for his sand film Sandman, and Caroline Leaf, whose experiments have been so numberous and noteworthy the last Center Screen showing will be devoted to her work--all are old friends of Carpenter...