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University Daily Kansan
Fridav. Nov. 8.1963
Origin of Modern-Day Art Traced to Renaissance
Architects, artists and sculptors of the Renaissance were experimenters. They took the old, classical elements of their arts and combined them in a "new experience." Gerald Bernstein, instructor of art history and curator of the KU Museum of Art, said last night.
Passing back and forth before two large movie screens, Bernstein pointed to still slides of Renaissance buildings, paintings and statues as he explained how artists of the period developed the modern art of their era.
Bernstein's was the first in the new Western Civilization Extra Lecture series.
"It WAS MODERN because it was a new creation and of their time," Bernstein said. "It affected the people of that era the way that abstract art did ours."
The movement began in Florence, "the cradle of Humanism," when Italian architects became unsatisfied with the Gothic architecture of northern Europe, he said.
"THE ITALIANS never quite accepted the Gothic influence," he said. "After all, Rome was the center of classicism."
He said men began to realize that there was no need for fortifications
Tutoring Service Now In Operation
Dan Wanamaker, Salina junior, and chairman the KU-Y tutor service, announced yesterday that the program is in operation.
"The tutoring does not usually start until about this time," said Wanamaker. "Now that the downs have come out, many freshmen will get in touch with us."
Wanamaker said that the service usually gets more inquiries from the freshmen women. He said that they find it more difficult to get help in the freshman dormitories than the men do in the fraternity houses and their large dormitories.
Cost of tutoring is $1.00 an initial expense which covers charges for handling fees.
The service in co-operation with Dean Heller chooses students who have a 2 point or better grade average and asks them to tutor students at no charge.
Tutors will meet with these students at least once a week from now until two weeks before final examinations. Meeting will take from half an hour to two hours per week.
Wanamaker said that most applicants are freshmen who need help in basic courses.
as there had been in the Middle Ages. It gave architects the opportunity to try new ideas, ideas that had never been tried before.
"The early attempts show flaws, what you might call aesthetic mistakes," he said.
ARTISTS WERE held back from accomplishing more because of their early training. Bernstein pointed to one of the screens and a picture of Veneziano's "St. John in the Desert." The artist had used many new techniques, but he could not visualize anything but the traditional, almost cartoon-like mountains.
The period was characterized, he said, by desire for reality in the artists' works. The nude human body was a favorite subject.
"The human form looked as if it took up space. Men were shown casting a shadow on the objects around them," he said.
Michelangelo's "The Creation" in the Sistine Chapel in Rome pictured Adam with his arm outstretched, reaching for the extended hand of God, Bernstein said as a slide of the work lit up on the screen to his left. To his right, a close up of the two outstretched index fingers of God and Adam appeared.
"MAN WAS WAITING; about to awaken from dormancy in the next instant."
Bernstein said that the early Renaissance lasted from the late 1300's to 1500.
THE DEATH of Raphael in 1520 was the end of Renaissance. What had been the era of experimentation and control became the era of the baroque, the cluttered and fantastically over-decorated.
Bernstein concluded with a comparison of Michelangelo's "The Creation" (executed around the 1508-1516) on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, an example he had used earlier in describing the Renaissance, and "The Last Judgment" (executed in the middle 1530's) on a wall in the same chapel.
Harris Equates Power Politics With Hot War Among Nations
Power politics in international affairs inevitably degenerates into a shooting war. This was the thesis of Errol E. Harris, professor of philosophy in his latest lecture in a series on the "Philosophy of War and Peace," in Dyche auditorium.
Because the relations between states cannot be regulated by law, no state can be trusted to keep agreements or respect the sovereign rights of others.
"The power sought by each state is a power capable of withstanding that of others, and so must be built up in rivalry with others," Prof. Harris said.
All international politics is power politics.
States are not expected to act from the same high-minded motives that the individual is supposed to, Prof. Harris said. Unselfishness, though praiseworthy in the individual, is considered foolish or craven in a state.
ASC Apprenticeship Positions Available
Freshmen who are interested in student government will be able to serve apprenticeships on All Student Council committees this year.
Jon Waller, Overland Park senior and ASC public relations committee chairman, said last night that applications will be sent to freshman women's residence halls Thursday for persons interested in the work of any of the council's 25 committees.
Waller said that the freshmen would not be actual members of the committees, but would observe the work as onlookers. He said that the experience would be valuable to them in applying for an ASC committee this spring.
Applications will go to fraternity pledge classes and men's residence halls at a later date, Waller said.
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"Not only is war the litigation of states, it is the only available sanction supporting international rules of conduct," the speaker explained.
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Prof. Harris said it has been maintained that war is politics carried on by other means. "The converse is also true, that politics in the international sphere are merely war carried out by other means."
"An inside view of the present situation in Viet Nam"
ASC and SUA present
A system of relations which derives from the pursuit of power produces a delicate balance such as exists today, in which the least change, or suspicion of a change, is liable to upset the equilibrium, Prof. Harris said.
Tran Van Chuong
Former South Viet Nam Ambassador to the U.S.
and Father of Madame Nhu
"Each will become nervous of the other and every new move will stimulate an antagonistic counter-move. So we get the 'war of nerves' which has been so marked a feature of international politics since the 1930's."
Thus when matters become difficult, diplomacy degenerates into threats, which lead to international tensions, and then to continual crises. Each crisis is a new stimulus to the arms race, Prof. Harris said.
"Arms, moreover, are made to be used, and threats are of no avail if it is known that they will not be carried out. So that the presumed outcome of this process is war, and, in the past, that has always been its actual outcome."
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It is entirely false that preparations for war insures the maintenance of peace, the philosopher continued. Rather it maintains the balance of power which in turn accelerates the arms race, intensifies tensions, stimulates crises, and increases the danger of war.
Neither does the neglect of war preparation reduce the possibility of war, he said.
Because of the destructive power of modern weapons, war is no longer a possible instrument of policy, he said. "It (war) threatens to engulf the whole world and utterly destroy civilization."
Prof. Harris will spend the rest of the course discussing the possible solutions to the problem of war as set down by various thinkers in the field. Succeeding lectures will be devoted to the nations of balanced deterrence, disarmament, and pacifism.
At 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Dyche auditorium Prof. Harris will discuss the balance of terror.
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