Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knobs to turn and fun buttons to push, and color TV excerpts from ZOOM. But in failing to approach the really challenging question of why color works the way it does, the Museum frustrates the viewer's curiosity. We are just left with an arcade of weird visual games...
...Escher (through May 31). This is just not the time to have to deal with two-dimensional lizards becoming three-dimensional, or columns that turn from convex into concave, or water flowing up the side of a building, or fishes mutating into birds, or any of the other visual contradictions that his mad-genius mind came up with. Escher works best for sane people with clear, analytical minds. All others (and that includes most of us) confront him at our own risk...
...demand for academic credit for our work. Together, however, we ask not to be condescended to. Our work is as valid as any other. If credit is not granted us, adequate facilities must be provided for both the production and exhibition of undergraduate work in order that the visual arts be given a sense of validity and a place of dignity within the University...
...work and responsible enough to organize an exhibition, we hoped to indirectly encourage the University to participate to a greater extent in such exhibitions. And, quite apart from the quality of the individual works, the exhibition was interesting. It was well installed, with sufficent diversity to suggest that the visual arts, despite a lack of University sanction, continue to be of significance to a broad spectrum of people in the undergraduate community...
Thus, last Saturday marked the end of another attempt to make the visual arts into something of significance at Harvard. Those of us who were fortunate enough to participate can only hope that others will soon have the same opportunity. There are far more visual artists--painters and sculptors, photographers and filmmakers among others--within the University than could be encompassed in our exhibition. Their work, too, should be encouraged and shown...