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Basic Design

Basic Design
Library Shelf Location 08.CRIP
Publication Date 2013
Description This display explored the role that Basic Design – a new and radical approach to training in art schools – played in revolutionising art education across Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Through the work of some of its key teachers including Roy Ascott, Richard Hamilton, Tom Hudson, Victor Pasmore and Harry Thubron, and their students, the display will survey the main features of Basic Design as they emerged and were taught in Britain, with accompanying archival material and video documentation. This booklet accompanies the display with texts on the history and development of Basic Design teaching in art school education and the development of the artist-teacher. This display has been devised by Elena Crippa and Beth Williamson with Jenny Powell. It forms part of Tate’s Leverhulme Trust-funded research project Art School Educated.
Quantity 1
Pages 35
Editors Elena Crippa, Beth Williamson
Format Exhibition Catalogue
Publisher Tate Publishing
Related Artists Victor Pasmore, Roy Ascott, Tom Hudson, Harry Thubron, Richard Hamilton
Category Education/Learning
Artist's Nationality British/UK
Language English

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