Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They came from prisons, posh suburbs, lunatic asylums and nursing homes. But they had one common trait: originality. Their art, generously displayed in American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century (Rizzoli; 342 pages; $45) shows astonishing visual power and aesthetic range. Eddie Arning, for example, who spent more than 60 years in a Texas mental institution, contributes eerie, compelling images that resemble Egyptian friezes. Inez Nathaniel Walker began drawing disquietingly grotesque portraits in prison. "There were all those bad girls talking dirty all the time," she recalls, "so I just sit down at a table and draw." All the artists...
Harvard has decided to appoint Arthur L. Locb, Senior Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, and his wife Lotje as the permanent masters of Dudley House...
...minute, 16mm color flick is one of only two film projects independent of Visual and Environmental Studies classes being done this year. Thirty students applied to the Office of the Arts for funding, but only Jonathan J. Scherick '84 of the Harvard Radcliffe Filmmaking Club got money--a $400 grant...
...Carpenter Center show is based on a study of a historic square in the ancient Nepalese city of Patan, conducted by Hooker Professor of Visual Arts Eduard F. Sekler. Sponsored in part by the United Nations and Birendra's government, the project examines ways to keep traffic and construction from destroying the square...
Ruddygore is a visual feast; not only are the sets remarkable, but so are the colorful original costumes, and the varied lighting. The biggest surprise comes in the second act when the life-sized portraits turn into the living ghosts of Sir Murgatroyds' ancestors. The combination of stage trickery, thundering music, black and red lighting, and grayish make-up make the scene extraordinarily effective...