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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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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Design Education Two Scientific Techniques Hornsey College of Art | Ernest Hoch, 1967
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Burning the Box of Beautiful Things by Alex Seago | Oxford University Press 1995
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Drawing: when how by Kurt Wirth | Alec Tiranti Ltd, 1965
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Three Lectures on Modern Art | Katherine S. Drieier, James J. Sweeney, Naum Gabo | Philosophical Library, 1949
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Fine Art Department Trent Polytechnic Nottingham 1973 Diploma show booklet head Derek Carruthers
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What Is Modern Painting? by Alfred H. Barr | The Museum of Modern Art, 1946
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Bob Cobbing. Improvisation is a dirty word | Magenta, 1990 concrete poetry
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Colour – A Manual of its Theory and Practice by H. Barrett Carpenter | Batsford, 1932, third edition
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The Home the Surrealists: Lee Miler, Roland Penrose and Their Circle at Farley Farm | Antony Penrose, 2001
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Shocks to the System. Social and Political Issues in Recent British Art | Arts Council, 1991
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Etching & Engraving Techniques and the Modern Trend | John Buckland-Wright 1953
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Theatres of Memory. Volume 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture by Raphael Samuel | Verso 1994
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Ark 15 Journal of The Royal College of Art Autumn 1955 issue
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Vasarely | Plastic Arts of the 20th Century (Victor Vasarely, 1965)
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Slade School of Fine Art Prospectus 1969-70 University College London
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Monad 1, Summer 1964 | Vol 1 No 1 | Chelsea Art School Students' Union | Norman Blamey
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Module, Symmetry, Proportion by Gyorgy Kepes | Studio Vista, 1966
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Marcel Duchamp – à L'infinitif | The Typosophic Society, 1999 | Translated by Richard Hamilton
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Mise en Page: The Theory and Practice of Lay-out Alfred Tolmer | The Studio, 1931
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John Piper | Stained Glass: art or anti-art | Studio Vista, 1968
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A History of Visual Communication | Josef Müller-Brockman | 1986
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