Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...connection between the increasingly representational tendencies in Western art (culminating with the Impressionists' pseudoscience of "capturing" light) and the elite system of distribution, the "individualization" of culture consumption. (The "art lover" syndrome is unique to modern societies.) Primitive art, by contrast, is for everybody and performs a social function, possesses a sign-value. Language is by nature a group phenomenon, an device versa. It follows that, in the chance of historical signification's surrounding the events at Adalen in 1931, without a clear definition of group relations, social depth-perception, class-consciousness, etc., you are going to run into problems...
...critical question for the university community to consider is under what circumstances the University should take on a service function, and how such functions should be monitored. That issue applies not only to the DAS, but also to the administration of rental housing, the maintenance of city clinics, the support of Roxbury enterprises, the conduct of Cambridge experimental schools, the support and assistance of protesting urban groups, and so on. I do not believe that service functions such as these are managed by sinister agents of a Maoist revolution any more than I believe that the DAS is managed...
Portraiture is the only form of Zen art that has a clearly defined function. Other paintings in Zen art, whether representations of eccentric poets or recluses, of sparrows or herons, of encounters, visits, or dialogues, have a purpose but no yet-discovered function. Paintings on the whole were not used as tools for instruction in Enlightenment; themes dealing with Nature might be looked at from the point of view of the Ch'an painter's awareness of "a single reality underlying the phenomena of nature." But, as the catalogue states, "the most obvious criterion for establishing what...
...gave his opinion that the ordinance was illegal for two reasons. First, an independent expert investigation would have to be made to determine whether or not a housing emergency actually existed in Cambridge, and second, the appropriation of $5000 mentioned in the ordinance was inappropriate because funding is a function that belongs to the city manager...
...would be available to a wide audience, a sense of responsibility would require that they be less frank, comprehensive, and communicative." The DAS thus asked the rest of the University to take the word of the Administration and a handful of Faculty committees that its operations are a "suitable function for a university... and a suitable function for Harvard in particular...