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Campus Savors Contemporary Arts In Twelfth Annual Festival A LECTURE by a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, an original experimental comedy, and a concert by a leading symphony orchestra were some of the highlights of the <strong>University</strong>'s Twelfth Festival of Contemporary Arts, April 10- 27. Numerous exhibitions and fifteen other special events attracted many students, Faculty members, and Ithaca residents. If anything further was needed to insure success, the weather provided it. As happened last year, the Festival enjoyed a long stretch of warm and sunny spring weather, just right for listening to poetry readings and visiting exhibitions of painting and sculpture. Museum Arranges Exhibits The Festival had five exhibitions in the White Art Museum. "Designed for CBS," a display of graphic art done by William Golden for Columbia Broadcasting System advertising and promotion occupied several galleries. It was the first retrospective exhibition of the work of Golden, who has won a number of awards for his work and is now creative director for Columbia Television. The Museum also had its first major exhibit of contemporary sculpture. Entitled "Forged in Fire," it showed the creations of six sculptors who use the metalworking techniques developed in modern industry to create forms by cutting, joining, and welding metal shapes. "Collages and Constructions" was a display of the work of twenty artists who are seeking a new kind of visual experience through the use of everyday materials. The "paintings" displayed on the walls of the Museum made use of such odds and ends as torn pieces of newspaper, fragments .of cloth and glass, and discarded plumbing fixtures. Unconsciously or not, many of these works possessed a high humor content. As in previous Festivals, there was an exhibition of recent paintings and sculptures by members of the Faculty <strong>Cornell</strong> Alumni News VOLUME 60, NUMBER 16 MAY 15, 1958 and graduate students in Fine Arts, and for the third time the Museum offered "Prints for Purchase," a collection of contemporary original prints by some of the world's most famous modern artists, offered at moderate prices. Other art exhibitions were in the Franklin Hall Gallery, where prints and drawings by Fine Arts students were shown Martha Van Rensselaer Gallery, featuring the work of students in Housing & Design; and Willard Straight Memorial Room, where there was an extensive showing of student painting and sculpture. Also on exhibit at Willard Straight were paintings by the Italian- born artist, Rico Lebrun, and the architectural models and drawings of the new capital of Brazil, Brasilia, executed by students in City & Regional Planning, under direction of Professor Frederick W. Edmondson '38, Landscape Architecture. The high standard of lectures maintained throughout the Festival was set on the first day when Professor Vladimir Nabokov, Russian Literature, discussed "Readers, Writers and Censors in Russia." In a crowded Olin Hall lecture room, Professor Nabokov reviewed "less with sorrow than contempt" the degeneration of Russian literature from its period of greatness in the nineteenth century to the artless propaganda produced during the last forty years under Soviet domination. Bolshevik literature, he said, is characterized by a "happy" agreement "A Different Drummer"—One of the most popular attractions of this year's Festival of Contemporary Arts was the Dramatic Club's presentation of the original comedy, "A Different Drummer," by Professor Eugene McKinney of Baylor <strong>University</strong>. Directed by William I. Oliver, MA '55, instructor in Speech & Drama, the play delighted audiences with its cheerful tale of a timid young man who changes his name to Jack Dempsey and transforms himself into a vigorous man of action. Various experimental techniques included dramatic choruses represented by the two white-faced actors at the sides of the stage. Those shown, from left, are Woody N. Klose '60, Judith Reynolds '60, Vivian Rainman '60, Margaret Chow '61, Richard W. Avazian '59, and Arnold C. Henderson '60. The set added much to the effectiveness of the play. It was by John R. Rothgeb, instructor in Speech & Drama. Peck, Photo Science 549
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