The Journal Block and Its Art School Context

Tools

Walton, Neil. 2018. The Journal Block and Its Art School Context. Arts, 7(4), [Article]

Preview

Text
Neil_Walton_Block_and_its_art_school_context_arts-07-00074.pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial.
Download (172kB) | Preview

Official URL: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/p...

Abstract or Description

This paper looks at an important moment in the recent history of UK art education by examining the magazine Block, a radical and interdisciplinary publication produced from within the art history department of an art school in the late 1970s and 1980s. Block was created and edited by a small group of lecturers at Middlesex Polytechnic, most of whom were art school educated; it was formed by, and in turn influenced, the milieu of studio-based art education in the UK. Despite the small scale of its operation, the magazine had a wide distribution in art colleges and was avidly read by lecturers looking for ways to incorporate new theoretical, often Marxist, feminist, poststructuralist, perspectives into their teaching.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.3390/arts7040074

Additional Information:

Published in a special issue of Arts 7 (4): Changing Pedagogies in the Art College: Learning and Teaching Art and Design in Higher Education

Keywords:

Art, Education, History, Block magazine, Middlesex Polytechnic

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Educational Studies > Centre for the Arts and Learning

Dates: