Sorry to bring you back to environment, but you may be interested to
know that Newton Harrison (and Helen Mayer Harrison), the initiator(s)
of ecological art studied under Albers - and you don't get more
'formal' than that, in the sense of intellectual rigour... or maybe at
Camberwell, in the days of Ewan Uglow - but then I reminisce. With
reference to Angela Eames, Last term, I introduced Drawing on Life, a 6
week, postgraduate research course, that combined life drawing and
eco-art seminar. I'm still trying to evaluate the project, but in the
meantime, students pester me daily to bring back drawing - it's touched
something in me that I had almost forgotten and it seems to have
aroused a need and a passion across disciplines with students in MIRIAD
at MMU.
Having absorbed the technology of electronics, students are demanding
the experiential, cognitive and philosophical rigours of 'real' drawing
as well.
David
On 27 Jan 2005, at 14:52, Patricia Cain wrote:
> On a different tack to the issues of environment, and the debate of
> "formal"-ness, could anyone point me in the direction of literature
> concerning
> the teaching of drawing, drawing exercises...even what happened in
> detail at
> Albers classes at Black Mountain college would be of interest...
>
> Having had an "education" in Fine Art,(and continuing in that
> process), I'm
> lamenting the lack of structured teaching of drawing (not necessarily
> the
> teaching of structured drawing), and it would be nice to get some ideas
> about the improvement of the situation.
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