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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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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Motif 7 Journal Summer 1961 | Edited by Ruari McLean | The Shenval press
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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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ARK 22 Journal of the Royal College of Art | Summer 1958
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The Political Origins of Abstract-Expressionist Art Criticism by James D Herbert | Stanford, 1985
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The technique of kinetic art by John Tovey | Batsford, 1971
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Colour: Basic Principles and New Directions by Patricia Sloane | Studio Vista
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ARK – Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine 1950–1978 | 2014
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Practice in Water-Colour by Leonard R. Squirrell | Pitman, 1950
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Field's Chromatography by Thomas W. Salter | Winsor and Newton presumed 1869
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Motif 6 – journal of the visual arts | Spring 1961 | Hans Unger, edited by Ruari McLean
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The Computer in Art by Jasia Reichardt | Studio Vista 1971 paperback, rebound
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Man | Oskar Schlemmer | A Bauhaus Book | Lund Humphries, 1971 first English ed
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