class motto
Hell, no. We won't go.
[chant rhythmically]

The Science of Art

Bruce B. Williams, Class of 1970
Wesleyan University
Middletown, Conn.

Honors in art, motion picture production
dual major - English and art departments

I am especially beholden to professors Joe Reed for a critical language and tough-minded aesthetic and John Frazier for the freedom to produce and an international perspective. Also teaching assistant Walter Odetts for a formative course on the aestetics of photography, and Alvin Lucier for superstar music and introducing me to Christian Wolff and my gone hero John Cage.

Like the song says, "I wanna be like Bob Dylan, a big star." I actually played Dylan in Marvel (1968) in a direct ripoff of Don't Look Back's Subterrannean Homesick Blues.
Dave Driscoll played Allen Ginsberg picking through the garbage in the background. It was a lovely time.

At UCLA, 1968 -1969, most memorable three dimensional photography course with Robert Heineken, along with RFK May-June 1968 to the end. Working backwards, in HS in Watts Riots, 1965. Ah, them West Coast visions.


Sitting home alone one night
in LA watching old Cronkite
on the seven o'clock news.
It seems there was
an earthquake there ...
I went and got
another beer.
Just like Tom Thumb wanna be Bob Dylan - a big star.


The music lesson
Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan
photo Elsa Dorfman



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