Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Harvard in general has a pretty fucked-up attitude towards art," said one Visual and Environmental Studies major. "They're not really interested--they just like to point at it [the department] once in a while and show how liberal they...
...Visual and Environmental Studies Department (art, photography and film) is a good little one (the number of concentrators) in each class is limited), but lack of endowment and sufficient funds results each year in the firing of several faculty members whom the University can no longer afford to pay. Even this rapid turnover in faculty would not be so bad if it were no for the game played with tenure--a game whereby people are hired with the promise of tenure and then fired after several years on the faculty. The department has less than three tenured professors, placing...
...Circles, for example, has no bar lines. Berio does indicate some points at which the singer, harpist, and percussionists are expected to arrive at the same time, and notes of specified pitch which are written at varying distances from each other to suggest duration. But within that skeletal visual framework, the performers must create the piece. There are also areas, set off in boxes, within which the performers are to improvise freely on certain pitches...
...life everywhere from typography to the mass-produced Marcel Breuer steel tubular chair. They'll wonder how this regulated style ever evolved from these 51 varied graphics--expressionist, primitive, whimsical. realistic, neo-classical, and architectural. And the Busch-Reisinger is not helping anyone by providing enlightening text or more visual information. No linear historical perspective adds to the horizontal historical sample of European...
What you do get from "New European Graphics" is visual excitement, With the exception of major French artists, this is everything that was happening in European art in 1921. For a refreshing change, it's not the scholars who made this selection but the artists themselves. Bauhaus teachers invited contributions from the artists they admired. It's a medley of masters and, as with a museum's permanent exhibits, you wander through and enjoy your favorites...