Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents circa 1963, an exhibition of iconic works from the early to mid-60s offers an eclectic picture of contemporaneity in the years of the Carpenter Center’s beginnings. On view August 30—October 14, 2012.
The exhibition frames the history of the building critically and historically, and sets the cultural and artistic context for the 50th anniversary exhibitions and programming that will follow. Drawing on works in diverse media, circa 1963 thus presents an eclectic picture of what “contemporaneity” meant in the years of the building’s beginnings. The exhibition includes artists who taught or were associated with the Center in its formative years, many of whom contributed to a vision of “Cambridge Modernism” as a new extension of Bauhaus ideals of experimentation and abstraction, and cross-media explorations of the visual arts. The works featured in this exhibition each present creative and conceptual investigations of color, form, and design so as to open new perceptual relationships between drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography and their social environments.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
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