Dear Alan,
I am in the process of setting up the Bristol Drawing School which will
open in January 08 and would also be very interested in seeing your
article, I have had a look for it on the web but it seems temporarily
unavailable at the site I looked at, I will try again in due course but
if you do know of where I could see it on the web I would be most
grateful.
Carol Peace
Bristol Drawing School
Unit 5.2
Paintworks
Bristol
BS4 3EH
www.drawingschool.org.uk
On 6 Aug 2007, at 13:42, Alan McGowan wrote:
> Thanks for your help Howard. I'd certainly be
> interested in your article. Is it available online?
> (or I can access it at the academic library).
>
> I am very interested (as an educator and as a
> practitioner) in the varied objectives and processes
> which have been/are utilised in life drawing,
> including "simple" representationalism and other
> diverse aims.
>
> Alan
>
>
> --- Howard Riley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Alan, (and list),
>> Depends how far you want to go back. Pevsner's
>> 'Academies of Art, Past and
>> Present'(chapter 2) gets you back to the first
>> Academies in Renaissance
>> Italy, in which life-drawing was first used to raise
>> the perceived social
>> status of artists over that of the craft guilds.
>> More recently, Goldstein's
>> 1996 'Teaching Art: Academies and Schools from
>> Vasari to Albers' would also
>> be very useful to your research.
>> We at Swansea have maintained the teaching of
>> life-drawing, not for any
>> outmoded attempt to maintain a discipline of
>> academic representationalism,
>> but because research has shown it is one of the most
>> efficient (and
>> economic) ways of developing in students an
>> 'intelligence of seeing',
>> especially when integrated with other drawing
>> activities based upon a sound
>> understanding of the two theoretical bases which
>> underpin all visual art
>> practice: those of perception theory and
>> communication theory. Perhaps you'd
>> like to see my article "Mapping the Domain of
>> Drawing' in 'International
>> Journal of Art&Design Education' Vol21 No.3
>> pp258-272.
>> Dr Howard Riley PhD MA(RCA)
>> Head, School of Research & Postgraduate Studies
>> Dynevor Centre for Arts, Design and Media
>> Swansea Institute, University of Wales
>> De La Beche Street
>> Swansea SA1 3EU
>> Wales, UK
>>
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>>
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>> Cyswllt yn Unig
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: Alan McGowan
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>>> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:24:52 +0100
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>>> Subject: Historical life drawing studios
>>>
>>> I'm trying to do a bit of research on the history
>> of
>>> life drawing and am interested in places/ studios
>>> where it would have been practised and/or taught,
>>> especially ones which are still operational. The
>> most
>>> obvious example would be the Royal Academy Schools
>> in
>>> London.
>>>
>>> Could anyone recommend others of historical
>> interest
>>> especially in Europe or North America? And does
>> anyone
>>> have experience of working in them?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Alan McGowan
>>>
>>
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