Frank Salmon
Ashgate
Hardback
264
2001
However, his life as an artist is only part of the story. Equally significant is his work as an art educator, stemming from his years as a teacher on the Basic Course at Leeds College of Art in the 1950s and the 1960s. This course, under the leadership of Harry Thubron, is now recognised as one of the most innovative post-Bauhaus art education programmes in Europe. Its premise was not the transfer of skill but the discovery of new aesthetic territories through freedoms of self-expression. David Lewis, architect, writer and teacher, was himself a student on the Basic Course, and those involved in the studios included Sir Herbert Read, Victor Pasmore, Sir Terry Frost, Alan Davie, Hubert Dalwood, Norbert Lynton, Tom Hudson, Maurice de Sausmarez and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham among others.
Ashgate
Hardback
264
2001
However, his life as an artist is only part of the story. Equally significant is his work as an art educator, stemming from his years as a teacher on the Basic Course at Leeds College of Art in the 1950s and the 1960s. This course, under the leadership of Harry Thubron, is now recognised as one of the most innovative post-Bauhaus art education programmes in Europe. Its premise was not the transfer of skill but the discovery of new aesthetic territories through freedoms of self-expression. David Lewis, architect, writer and teacher, was himself a student on the Basic Course, and those involved in the studios included Sir Herbert Read, Victor Pasmore, Sir Terry Frost, Alan Davie, Hubert Dalwood, Norbert Lynton, Tom Hudson, Maurice de Sausmarez and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham among others.