Word: visual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul Machotka will speak on "Visual Esthetics and Learning" at 8 p.m. tonight, in Lowell Lecture Hall. This is the second lecture in the series "Multi-Sensory Media for Learning...
...Rosenthal's most interesting data indicates that even if students in less advanced tracks show exceptional ability, teachers often refuse to recognize it or reward it, and instead find fault with the student's behavior, or attitude, or something. In this kind of environment, infusion of books and visual aids can hardly produce much effect on the achievement of disadvantaged students...
...everybody's way of seeing reality. Vancouver's Iain Baxter burlesques famous artists by carrying their pictorial trademarks to logical extremes. By adding ribbons to his copy of Kenneth Noland's "And Again," he has created an authentic Baxter (shown with the artist, at right). In visual language, the work snorts that if stripes alone make a painting, then why don't longer stripes make a better...
...which an emancipated nun feverishly embraced her lover, suddenly paused, and then panicked, "Has the angel come? Am I with child?" Yet, the total effect of all the sketches remained erratic. One element of the show, the Lenny Bruce ballet, for example, aimed at slightly obscene visual non-sequiturs. On a more abstract level, Leven had inserted stylized mood scenes on topics like the mechanization of love. Leftist political satire collided with slapstick routines. Each new offering neutralized the effect of the one that preceded it only to be wiped out in turn itself. The show left the audience bewildered...
...photographs of manuscripts, sculptures and paintings he brought back demonstrate that in the isolation of thousands of cloistered valleys, Himalayan artists developed a magnificence and mystery of their own. "The visual diversity of Himalayan art is incredibly wide," says Singh. "The sculptures are carved in all forms of relief, and in painting the variety of colors is equally rich. But to find the leitmotiv," he adds, "one must look beyond its incidental stylistic, mythological, ritualistic and legendary associations, toward the majestic silvery peaks symbolizing primeval ideals...