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News and notes were produced. This venture is of Bryan Ferry. The futurism and by Bruce Nauman.
different from 'homage to the shrine', stardust glitter of David Bowie was
Art and design: a marriage of or courtesy at the mausoleum. It bound to backfire into an over-the- Professor Roy Shaw will succeed
convenience? was the title of a follows a thread of development shoulder look at Hollywood, swimming Sir Hugh Willatt as secretary —
symposium, held on 28 September present in other subject areas, notably pools, neckties and the 1930s. general of the Arts Council next
which was sponsored by the Society the sciences, where one has to build Mr Ferry, with his group `Roxy Music' spring.
for Research into Higher Education into educational programmes some has obligingly come up with the
and held at the Trent Park precinct of factor which deals with the enormous answer, and in his act we have Malcolm Hughes is the new Senior
Middlesex Poly. It was opened by influence of advanced specialism in references to everything from Nietszche Lecturer at the Slade.
Clive Ashwin (Middlesex Polytechnic) America. to Nijinsky, albeit wrapped up in hard
who described the historical origins of It has been customary for the rock n' roll. In the provinces Ferry Antony Caro is having an extensive
the alliance between art and design student, when travelling abroad, to be dressed in a gaucho outfit complete retrospective at the Museum of Modern
education. He went on to point to influenced by some Byronian with lasso, whilst in London, against a Art, New York from April to July 1975.
some of the factors which seem to be romanticism; the sense in which a backdrop of Nazi eagles, he is a cross A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan's film of
working towards a divorce of the areas; 'grand tour' was made. The student between a Spanish policeman who has David Hockney, opened at two Paris
these included the changing nature of responded to the picturesque and the lost his horse and Erich von Stroheim. cinemas on 16 October. The premier
the subjects themselves and the ennobling but sought comfort in the Like Warhol and Duchamp, whom was originally scheduled to coincide
absorption of art colleges into larger stability of his own country's Ferry cites as important musical with the opening of Hockney's show
institutions. Clive Ashwin concluded institutions, changing them just slightly influences, no one asks whether you at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs but
by presenting some of the arguments on his return. It was cosy, and self- are laughing with or at him. the film was at first refused a certificate
for maintaining the alliance. congratulatory, a Bloomsbury Roxy Music's performance is all until the Minister of Culture intervened
After questions the second principal bohemianism which fitted in well with built on a careful seventy-seven minute and changed the ruling. The film
speaker, Dr Michael Twyman (Reading that era's notion of an artists' role. masterplan: the same numbers are should open in London soon.
University) highlighted some crucial Universal education, and mass played at each venue, unknown ones to 'An Anthology of British Photography'
differences between the role of the communication media since then have begin with to get the audience listening is now scheduled to run from mid-
designer and the fine artist; these brought about a revolution in the use and then this is broken by playing their March to mid-May 1975 at the
differences were particularly acute in of travel. One can reference the world, last single (a year old). Under Hayward Gallery, London.
the modern world with its sophisticated and with an NUS ticket get there programmed lighting effects Ferry
demands upon design expertise. cheaply. Our feeling at Hull about rushes back and forth between piano Old and new works of the experimental
Although he did not oppose the fine travel to America or anywhere else and vocals, Andy Mackay, the brilliant cinema are shown every Monday and
art/design bonding per se, he felt that (our plans for the future do include saxophonist (and oboist) 'Bonzo-Dogs' Tuesday nights at 11.15 pm by the
the excessive strength of this particular other venues) is that it needs a structure. across the stage and then after an Gate Cinema Club at the Gate Cinema,
bonding had inhibited the formation Reference to the USA by pin is out. 'encore' when the audience have just Notting Hill Gate, London W11. On
of other bondings equally relevant to At first the college set up a Foreign come alive all is over. In other words, 18 and 19 November they are showing
design education, such as those with Visiting Lectureship, and an important like a Nazi rally, we are all under their videotapes and films by Taka limura.
the behavioural sciences and engineering. figure in the college's development, rule, we must do and react just as they The directors of the cinema are Barbara
Jerrold Maddox, an American artist/ want us to, there is no room for real
He concluded by outlining the rationale and David Stone, editors of Film
of the new degree in Typographic teacher, was appointed. As a direct encores, a package band on a package Culture, and Alan Power, the art
result of his presence in 1963-4 the tour, yet within this framework they
Communication at Reading, which had collector.
implemented a multi-disciplinary college was put in the picture about are brilliant.
approach to design education. that vague rumour in the provinces The Serpentine Gallery is looking for Winners of the 'Art into Landscape'
During the afternoon the chairman that something generically new was paintings, prints, photographs, drawings, competition: In the professional
David Warren Piper (Teaching Methods happening in American Art. The indoor and outdoor sculpture, multi- category the prize money of £2,000
Unit, London University) invited feeling took hold in a provincial media installations and 'performed' was shared between Roger Fagin and
research reports and case studies from college that provincialism was work for its next Summer season David Cashman (Laycock School),
the floor. Ben Austen (Design Council) something to do with being away from ( J une—September 1975). Applications Martin Naylor (Five chairs from which
expressed concern over an apparent where seminal debate is taking place, are invited from artists in their 20s and to view the world), and Slobodan Dan
drift from industrial relevance in some not to do with being away from 30s who have not yet exhibited Paich (Two offerings).
recent design education. Harriet London. Laurence Alloway, with substantially in London. Graduates 'Audio Arts', the magazine on cassette
Sleigh described her research at the prophetic zeal, was saying the same in should allow a minimum of one year tape, have a new issue out. On one
Slade School, in which she had London colleges. Another American
to elapse between completing their side is 'A Question of James Joyce'
produced a typology of fine art visitor who proved crucial to the studies and applying for a show. which includes Joyce reading Anna
teaching procedures in sociological College was James McGarrell, a
Closing date for applications is Livia Plurabelle and on the other side
terms. Other speakers outlined figurative painter active in a similar
December 20. All submissions of slides is 'Recollections of C.K. Ogden and
experiments in course design and area to Pearlstein. He visited Hull on
and photographs must be accompanied others' which includes Wittgenstein
design projects. the way to Paris in 1965, and soon
by an application form. These will be and the Tractatus and is by Mark
At a final plenary session the issues after his visit the first of a line of
sent by request to the Serpentine Hayman. 'Audio Arts' costs £8 p.a.
which had emerged during the day postgraduate applications to America
Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London (4 issues) and is available from their
were reduced to a list of key problems. was made. Some of these were
W2 3XA. tel. 01-402 6075. new address at 64 New Kings Road,
These included the relative status of successful and the first thread of
London S.W.6. (Tel. 01-731 3997).
art and design activity, the recurring continuous contact became apparent. The British Theatre Exhibition
need for remedial education at college A sequel to this was that John Hughson, scheduled for the Hayward Gallery Banco, a new gallery, has opened at
level and the problem of integrating one of Hull's successful post-graduate London next summer has been cancelled Via Agostino 3, Brescia, Italy. In
course ingredients. A report of the applicants, initiated the present due to inflation. The risks involved in November they are showing a third of
Symposium will be available shortly exchange. terms of how much the cost would be an exhibition by Daniel Buren, the
from The Administrator, The Society The programme of the exchange is offset by takings have made the show other parts being at Sperone in Turin
for Research into Higher Education, that Americans study in the second less and less justified and the Arts and Sperone/Fischer in Rome. The
25 Northampton Square, London EC1. year of the college's DipAD (CNAA) Council felt that they should guard gallery is directed by Massimo Minini.
course, having worked out certain every penny to help other organizations Gerald Laing's book 'Kinkell' on his
Hull College of Art and the New York specialisms in that area. The British in the provinces. settlement in Scotland will be
students study in the equivalent year of
State University at Fredonia have published on 10 November by Latimer
the Fredonia Degree Course. Each The International Committee for the
recently negotiated an exchange New Dimensions, price £4.95. Gerald
group enrols in its home college, so no Kassel Documenta in 1976 is Kynaston
between their two Fine Art faculties. Laing's speech at the 'Black and
transference of funds is made. In McShine, Edward Fry, Jan van der
This is certainly the first exchange to White Oil Show' appears on page 189
addition, once the pilot scheme has Marck, Pontus Hulten, Klaus Honnef,
include the whole of the second year of of this issue, in the article by Peter
run for a little longer, there is facility Evelyn Weiss, Gerhard Bott, Erich
an undergraduate programme ever Cook.
for staff exchange, a pilot staff Herzog, Karl Ruhrberg and Wieland
arranged within the DipAD (now
exchange having taken place in 1973-4, Schmied. Documenta will show the Charles Harrison has asked us to state
CNAA) Fine Art sector. D. Booth,
a factor which we hope will be of present art scene against a background that he was incorrectly described in the
head of the School of Fine Art at Hull, of its historical beginnings. Harald
writes: Why take such initiatives? great help in extending the range of September contributors' notes as a
experience for staff in Hull. Szeeman, director in 1972, will be founder-editor of Art-Language. He
Often the initiative to travel abroad,
presenting his 'museum of obsessions'. was not involved in the editing of
particularly by Americans, is taken in
order to re-discover historic Roxy Music were on tour and at the The whole show may possibly be Art-Language until two years after the
transported to Philadelphia for the 2nd
relationships between indigenous Rainbow Theatre, London, in the publication of the first issue.
cultures and those of other people. In autumn. Gordon Lowe and Paul Centennial of the Declaration of John Hulton is leaving his position as
Independence.
all art education young students have Martin write: After ten years of forced Head of the Fine-Art division of the
travelled in order to research into decadence, pop music has at last taken Robert Self opened his new gallery in British Council, London, to take up
masterpieces, studying them in the a new direction in the tuxedoes, the Haunch of Venison Yard (off Brook landscape architecture. He will be
geographical context in which they Valentinos and now the Fourth Reich Street), on November 7 with a show succeeded by Gerald Forty.