Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Overseers' "Report on the Visual Arts" made its appearance last year, it attracted enthusiastic attention nationally and raised hopes at Harvard for a revision of the fine arts program. Last week, an eightman faculty committee vetoed what that report had called its "major recommendation," provision for a "Division of the Visual Arts...
...reason for rejection of a "Division of the Visual Arts" is that it would be an unnecessary and unwieldy administrative organ. Instead, another faculty committee is suggested which would "encourage cooperation between parts of the University which have to do with the visual arts." It is never the less highly questionable whether a committee could cope sufficiently with so large a project as the creation and execution of a "new sense of direction" in regard to the visual arts...
...eight-man group was set-up to consider the more than sixty recommendations made by the Visual Arts Committee, and more specifically, those recommendations that concerned educational policy...
...Visual Arts Committee, after surveying all facets of the visual arts at Harvard, said, "Our major recommendation, from which all detailed recommendations emanate, is the establishment of a Division of the Visual Arts. The division would consist of the Department of the History of Art (the Fine Arts Department); the Department of Design: the Harvard Theatre; and all of the teaching collections, such as museums, and art collections...
...eight-man committee, representing men from all the areas affected by the Visual Arts Report, said it did "not subscribe to the recommendation for the establishment of a Division of the Visual Arts." It believed that such a Division "would add an unneeded and probably cumbersome administrative mechanism...