Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those involved with the Center what the approach of the Center is and what kind of courses will be taught there, one comes away with a composite response which, when shorn of the verbal ornamentation, virtually duplicates the foreman's . The fact is that no one knows here the Visual Arts Center is headed. There are still no clear plans and it seems unlikely that there will be any for a long time...
...concentrated thought over the past nine years on the subject of the visual arts at Harvard has prompted a sometimes rather bitter controversy at the University. One cannot simply count out two sides to this dispute since opinions cover a broad spectrum. At the extremes, though, one finds those who believe that Harvard is a purely academic institution where studies of visual matters should extend only to art history and the scientific investigation of the cognitive process, opposed by those who believe that the University gains a great deal by having a number of people around who are interested almost...
President Pusey opened the issue shortly after his arrival at the University by appointing a committee headed by John Nicholas Brown '22, a former Overseer, to study the current situation in the visual arts and recommend changes. The committee's report, returned in 1956, expressed the conviction that although the study of visual communications was of the utmost importance, Harvard was severely deficient in the area...
...proposals that must have brought about a severe case of shudders in any number of Faculty members. Its primary administrative recommendation was that the Fine Arts Department (to be called History of Art), the Department of Design, and the Harvard theatre, should be subordinated to a Division of the Visual Arts. As Sidney Freedberg, current chairman of the Fine Arts Department, has expressed it, the Faculty "brayed this suggestion." The committee also recommended that students in the History of Art be required to take at least one course in the history of design and participate in "labs" appended to History...
...committee's basic assumption, though, that bears greatest relevance to the Visual Arts Center as it now stands. The goal of study in the visual arts is appreciation, "the ultimate perception of quality," the Brown committee wrote. "To this end there are many avenues of approach. For some, history of art is the way. Others find their solutions in the theory of art, in the analysis of color and the formulae of design. Still others need the practice of art, the actual manual process of painting and drawing, of making sculpture and of constructing model buildings and fashioning decors...