Word: sekler
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Sekler states that, in view of the VAC's interest in furthering the visual arts as a means of communication, "the departments of anthropology, government, psychology, social relations, the graduate school of education, and the centers for urban and cognitive studies may be expected to have an obvious interest in the new venture." Mention has been made even of the possibility of working with television channel 2, Boston's educational TV station...
...Committee on the Practice on the Visual Arts has agreed that extra curricular work should generally be discouraged at the Center, yet it possible that some supervised individuals and groups may work at the VAC. Several people, particularly Dean Trottenberg, Sekler, and Robert G. Garner Coordinator of the Light and Communications Center, are anxious to start a collection of historically important photographs and exhibit them regularly...
...Sekler, on the other hand, suggests that one aspect of the program will be "creative activity" for its own sake. In his statement on the Program of Visual Studies, he writes: "Naturally the same search for quality applies in visual studies that prevails in scholarly and scientific fields throughout the University. On their highest levels these studies may reach the domain of art, but it seems a wise humility not to set out on a program that is restricted to the highest possible achievement only. Instead creative activity will be encouraged in the manipulation of forms to an end without...
...building itself was designed to accomodate the uncertain intentions as to how it would be used. In fact, says Sekler, "the program for the Visual Arts Center rests partly on the inspiration aroused by the building. Le Corbusier's commission was to create an inspirational building." The University made very few precise requirements. Among them were that studio space be flexible so that it could be used for other purposes or partioned off into smaller areas, that there be a minimum of offices in order, as Sekler says, to avoid the atmosphere of a "bureaucratic hydrocephalus," and that there...
...aesthetic complaints are signs of poor taste, perhaps the activities of the Center will educate their adherents out of their current views. As to the complaints regarding usefulness, Sekler ticalities are the price you pay for says quite simply that "certain imprac-having the work of a genius...