Word: hoffman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stanley H. Hoffman, professor of Government and chairman of a special Faculty Council subcommittee formed last spring to study the CRR reform proposals, said yesterday, "I don't see a ghost of a chance for the Faculty Council accepting the reforms wholesale as they (the CRR) proposed them...
...exhibit concentrates on the gestual element of abstract expressionism. Hans Hoffman's "Blue Rapsody", not one of his better efforts, dominates one wall of the gallery and features fire-work burst of paint. Hoffman who was probably more influential as a teacher than as a painter during his lifetime, generally filled his canvass with intense, vibrant color...
Ironically, Hoffman's painter colleagues who specialized in pessimistic views about the world expressed frequent feelings of pity for "poor Hans" who nevertheless adhered to a brighter view of things--a view which his canvases reflect. Hoffman, perhaps not in-coincidentally, was one of the few major abstract expressionists who did not commit suicide or experience periods of mental instability...
...show has problems but this is largely due to holes in the Fogg's collection. Both the Hoffman and the Motherwells are weak and the absence of the Pollock doesn't help things either. In addition, the show suffers from a lack of any work by Barnett Newman, a major figure on the color-field side of abstract expression. Though the Mark Rothko is an example of this school, it hardly compensates for Newman's absence. On the positive side, the show is well exhibited, and it is a nice surprise to see what the Fogg can fish...
Richard S. Hoffman '80 said that he had come to "find out about Frank Hatch. I'm a traditional Democrat, but I'm disappointed with Ed King...