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...drive a Chevy,” John R. Stilgoe proclaims. “It makes me sound like a common man.” The famously quirky visual and environmental studies professor says his black ’96 Suburban helps him blend into rural America on his annual summer field trips into the heartland...
...Investment bankers don’t have to go through those trials and tribulations, do they?Compared to the sciences or humanities, where Harvard’s ability to lay foundations for future success is relatively unquestioned, there are persistent doubts about the relevance or future value of a Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) education. A Crimson editorial, written two years ago by Andrew L. Kreicher ’06, denounced VES as “a concentration so unnecessary, ridiculous, and over-dramatized that it’s hard to mention it anymore without a snicker on your face...
...fibers, leaving the underlying white paper behind. Chen Qikuan’s playful “Monkeys” depicts four monkeys and a parent in curving strokes of black ink. From afar, I mistook it for a Chinese character. Qikuan, who studied calligraphy as a child, forms his visual pun with an ordinary subject and traditional, pithy strokes. This extension of tradition pushes the bounds of modernism, and museums often grapple with categorizing the art. “What an exhibition like this does,” says Lentz, “is to really call into question...
...experience of imagining music is much the same as listening to it. Also, that the corpus callosum, the mass of nerve fibers that wire the two hemispheres of the brain together, is enlarged in professional musicians. "Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician," Sacks writes, "but they could recognize the brain of a professional musician without a moment's hesitation." Yet he worries that by reducing music to a set of neurological functions, "the simple art of observation may be lost ... clinical description may become perfunctory...
Garrett G. D. Nelson ’09 is a social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator in Cabot House...