Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts opened last spring, one heard nothing but praise for it. Everyone agreed that the visual arts were splendid things, and agreed that the Corbusier building was exciting. But, oddly enough, one never heard complaints about the kinds of activities that were to go on within the Center...
...Carpenter Center may become their badly-needed focal point. Despite its lack of space for students' own projects, the Center represents a great milestone for the visual arts at Harvard. But the University usually seems most unreceptive to visual creativity. It does offer several courses in design and, since September, one in descriptive drawing. And, as one student remarked, "any course that increases your discipline over eye, mind and hand is good for you." But most students also observe that the present curriculum is very limited. There are no courses in the more traditional disciplines of figure drawing and basic...
There are many people, however, who have decided that their vocation must lie in some visual field. These people have little choice at Harvard but to major in Fine Arts. The curriculum rarely satisfies them. In the first place, they complain, Harvard's Fine Arts courses encourage a verbal, rather than visual, appreciation of art. There is too much emphasis on merely collecting and spouting back the material presented in lectures and far too little on actually looking at the works discussed. Students are not trained to see. They learn about paintings and statues as historical events, not as unique...
...BETTMANN PANOPTICON-The Bettmann Archive, 136 East 57th St. Visual fun-and-games played by commercial artists collaging or assemblaging old graphics and other curiosities from Bettmann's collection. The results, ranging from Pop-art foolishness to fine-art finesse, are often impressive. Through...
Titled "She Walks in Splendor," and covering the years 1550-1950, the exhibition was assembled, in the words of Textiles Curator Adolph S. Cavallo, to demonstrate visual beauty, which "in the world of the costume artist becomes a quality that can best be described as elegance or splendor...