Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...root of many of these difficulties is the multitude of professions engaged in correcting visual defects. There are the ophthalmologists, M.D. physicians who prescribe corrective lenses as a minor part of their specialty of treating eye disorders. Then optometrists,* who may not apply medicine or perform surgery, but measure visual defects, prescribe for them and fit lenses. Then there are the opticians. The ophthalmologists generally regard the other groups as journeymen technicians. But most ophthalmologists have been slow to see the potential demand for contact lenses, or their possible advantages; so the optometrists have filled the vacuum...
...Arnold Schoenberg (this technique is built on a freely selected series of individual tones rather than on the limited, key-oriented diatonic scale). But Stravinsky has added some of his own style to the serial method. In his book, Conversations with Igor Stravinsky (Doubleday; $4), Conductor Robert Craft sketched visual projections of musical styles from the simplicity of plain chant via the sound spirals of Atonalist Anton Webern to the newer serialists. Then Stravinsky added his own sketch of his own recent music (see cut). The knobs in the sketch stand for notes, suggest that Stravinsky wants all notes...
...winters ago, Portfolio, a magazine devoted to reproductions of the best graphics by Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, made its appearance in the Square. This fine effort to stimulate interest in the visual arts in the University was headed by Ben Shahn, then the Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer. With funds supplied from a private source and with the cooperation of the Department of Fine Arts, the venture promised an increased audience for the undergraduate artist. Unfortunately, there was no second issue of this fine publication...
...Harvard prepares for its Corbusier-designed Center for the Visual Arts, the question of University encouragement of student efforts in the fine arts comes up once again. Though for the past few years the Fogg Museum has given space for the showing of student works of art, on recent efforts has been made to revive Portfolio...