Join Tyler's Art History Department for a talk titled A Vision for Education: Why Does the Barnes Foundation Look that Way?, presented by Jay Raymond, who studied at the Barnes Foundation in the 1970s.

Why does the Barnes Foundation look that way? There's an idea behind it and, try as you might, it's hard to find out what that idea is...or was. Jay Raymond was a student of Violette de Mazia, Dr. Barnes' intellectual partner in developing the aesthetic theory and practice that formed the collection, both in its content and composition.

Raymond went on to teach at the Foundation—the same class that de Mazia taught—and author two books in which he applied the Barnesian theory and practice to the aesthetics of electric irons and mangle boards. He is currently writing a book that explains Barnes' ideas in plain language and, with an eye towards history, describes what it was like to visit the Barnes Foundation in its original home in Merion, Pennsylvania.