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...vast expansion of Harvard's visual arts facilities--a program to include a Harvard Theatre and a new Design Center--has been urged by the Committee on the Visual Arts in its report released today...
Headed by John Nicholas Brown '22 of Providence, the committee spent over a year in drawing up the report which investigated almost every facet of the visual arts at Harvard. Financed partly by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, the group visited some 58 schools and colleges, and spoke to over a hundred experts in the field...
...visual arts are an integral part of the humanities and as such must assume a role of prominence in the context of higher education," the committee said. "Perhaps at no moment in history since the invention of printing has man's communication with his fellow man been so largely taken over by visual media as today...
...latter interest is perhaps easily seen, but that in the visual arts may come as a slight surprise. Coolidge has two ideas about the situation. One is that art can appeal to people with little leisure because it has a faster impact than literature. The other is that the visual capacities of immigrants--the Greeks, the French, the Italians--are finally having an effect on our culture. This is because most Anglo-Saxons are less visual by nature than their contemporaries of European stock. The result in American terms, Coolidge says, is that "the average individual is far more cultured...
...manifestation of the visual arts appreciation has been the response to Fogg's exhibitions. One on French drawing attracted nearly 20,000 people in two weeks, and another on Ancient Art drew some 3,000 on the last Sunday of the exhibition. The Museum is therefore producing major shows like the recent Reubens exhibit, in which all but one or two of the Reubens drawings and oil sketches in the country were shown, with some degree of regularity, usually one a year...