Word: visualizing
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...Visual and Environmental Studies Department which is to replace the Architectural Sciences Department has decided not to allow any sophomores to transfer into the new major next year. The department had two months earlier indicated to the sophomores that they would be allowed to transfer in. The department has also chosen 23 freshmen to start the concentration program in the fall. The applications of some 40 other freshmen were turned down...
Limiting the number of concentrators was a necessary action. The Visual Arts Center no more has the facilities to handle all its qualified applicants than does Harvard College. To have exceeded their own guidelines of 20 concentrators from each class would have forced the Visual Studies Department to limit the outside enrollment in their courses even more than it is already...
...moment some courses have ten applicants for every place in the course. The two highest men in the department, Professor Eduard Sekler and Professor Albert Szabo, have both stressed that the primary purpose of the Carpenter Center is to extend ideas of visual communication to as many people in the university as is possible. This goal is as it should be in a liberal arts college...
...delights of art history comes in the fitting together of pieces of a puzzle. For experts in the field much of the scholarly information has long since slipped into place, but it is ever the privilege of the individual viewer, however amateur his status, to discover newness in the visual evidence itself. The Fogg's imaginative and exciting exhibition offers a wonderful opportunity for such discovery...
WHICH is not to say the production lacks a sense of designed visual coherence. Although the settings themselves (for which no program credit is provided) are neither beautiful, flexible, nor functional--consisting largely of sliding stair units and walls bearing faded and indifferently rendered Egyptian wall motifs--the use Chapman makes of them is bold and consistent. Given an almost unnaturally broad and shallow stage, he has chosen to arrange almost every scene as a balanced static composition, varied only at moments of true dramatic necessity. The effect seems to me to be entirely intentional, and it works splendidly...