Collection: Art Theory and Education
This diverse range of vintage and rare books explores creative processes, and the role of art in society. Written by experts in their field, they inspire educators and artists, offering new perspectives that can enrich teaching methods, and foster innovation in artistic practice.
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Living Arts magazine 2 and 3 | Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1963 Theo Crosby
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Leaflet A Collection of Borders & Decorative Material in use in the Printing Department Guildford School of Art, undated
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Pamphlet for The De La Warr Pavilion Education Project Pavilion Trust, Bexhill-on-Sea, 1994
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The Artist & War in the 20th Century | An age of conflict | BBC Publications 1967 | Speakers Francis Hoyland and T.G. Rosenthal. Published to coincide with a BBC radio programme | signed by R.A. Dunlop
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Athene. The Journal of the Society of Education through Art | Vol 9 No 1 Winter 1958-9 | edited by Dennis Young | Herbert Read
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A Guide to the Teaching of Manuscript Writing by S.A.Golds | Blackie & Son, 1919
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The Moon Tree. An Essay on the Symbolic in Art written and illustrated by Duncan Killen | School of Design, Oxford Polytechnic, 1971 | limited edition signed and numbered
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Handbook of Window Display, William Nelson Taft | 1st Edition 2nd Impression, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1926
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What is modern painting? Alfred H. Barr | The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1945
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Art History Today by L.D. Ettlinger. An Inaugural Lecture | UCL 9 March 1961
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Versus number 3 1994. Leeds University Fine Art Department journal | Editors Heidi Reitmaier and Rob Stone
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Winchester School of Art. Fine Art Degree Show 1984. 16 to 22 June 1984 | list of students and their works
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Prospectus of Photography. The department and its facilities | Guildford School of Art, 1960s | introduction by Ifor Thomas
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Encounter magazine Volume XXVI, No.1 Jan 1966 | article on concrete poetry by Edward Lucie-Smith
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Image as Language – Aspects of British Art by Christopher Finch | Pelican, 1969
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Historic Ornament: Treatise on Decorative Art. Prehistoric, ancient, mediaeval, renaissance, art and architecture by James Ward | Chapman & Hall 1897
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The Englishness of English Art by Nikolaus Pevsner | Architectural Press, 1956
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Figures of Motion. Len Lye Selected Writings | Curnow/Horrocks, 1984 [kinetic art]
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'Cuts and Gashes Can Be Fatal'. RoSPA Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents. Public information poster. Reference number suggests a date of 1944
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Ernest Hareux: Mixing of Colours Taught By Exemplification | H. Laurens, Editeur, Paris, and Lechertier Barbe Ltd, London, c.1890-1900
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Students' Type Study Leaflets | Educational pack | The Monotype Corporation, undated
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Vision and Design by Roger Fry | Chatto and Windus, 1929
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Laurence Alloway. Critic and curator | Edited by Lucy Bradnock, Courtney J. Martin, and Rebecca Peabody | Getty Research Institute, 2015
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The Critical Idiom – Satire by Arthur Pollard | Methuen & Co, 1976
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Primitive Man as Philosopher by Paul Radin | Dover Publications, 1957 paperback
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Display Technique by H. C. Muscutt | Mills & Boon Limited, 1963
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Painting from A to Z by James Lawrance | Third (austerity) edition, 1947
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Science and the Creative Arts | William Bowyer Honey, Faber & Faber 1945
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Printing by Harold Curwen illustrated by Jack Brough edited by Noel Carrington |Puffin Picture Book No. 70, 1961 reprint
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Training in Commercial Art by Verney L. Danvers | Sir Isaac Pitman, 1928
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The Technique of Collage by Helen Hutton | Batsford/Watson Guptill, 1968
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Landscape Drawing by John O’Connor | Book Associates, 1977
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The artist in an industrial society by Hans Hess | Dept of Adult Education, Hull, 1964
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The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays | Baudelaire | Phaidon, 2006
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The Necessity of Artifice by Joseph Rykwert | Academy editions, 1982
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Simple Rules for Painting in Oils by A. P. Laurie | Winsor & Newton, undated presumed to be 1930s
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