Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Growth could conceivably even come in the form of the establishment of a concentration in visual arts. According to Dean Ford, this suggestion "has come up but is not being pushed strongly." He notes, however, that it "will no doubt come up more often in the future...
Perhaps an ever bigger question than the direction in which the VAC will grow is the question of how much the artist, as opposed to the person taking creative courses for the sake of improving his understanding of visual experiences, will be encouraged. Here, statements by people involved with the Center have not been altogether consistent...
Peter D. Schultz, executive secretary of the Center, emphasizes the intellectual content of the courses, which he feels are primarily concerned with the "analysis of elements of visual or artistic experience." The program, he says, should "teach students to learn to see rather than to become great artists...
Sekler, on the other hand, suggests that one aspect of the program will be "creative activity" for its own sake. In his statement on the Program of Visual Studies, he writes: "Naturally the same search for quality applies in visual studies that prevails in scholarly and scientific fields throughout the University. On their highest levels these studies may reach the domain of art, but it seems a wise humility not to set out on a program that is restricted to the highest possible achievement only. Instead creative activity will be encouraged in the manipulation of forms to an end without...
Clarity of purpose is obviously not one of the centers hallmarks. Some degree of uncertainty in a new program of such broad scope as the Visual Arts Center is, of course, inevitable. But that this uncertainty might grow into complete aimlessness represents a danger which, hopefully, the C.P.V.A. will carefully guard against...