Victor Pasmore et. al. 'The Developing Process' 1959. Designed by Richard Hamilton
A rare early catalogue produced to accompany the exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1959.
The Developing Process was first presented in 1959 at the Hatton Gallery and then at the ICA in London. The exhibition was a collaboration between Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore from King’s College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Harry Thubron and Tom Hudson from Leeds College of Art. The Developing Process served as a seminal occasion and was responsible for the promotion of "Basic Design” the organiser’s groundbreaking approach to art training which was to influence higher education in art for generations to come.
As Elena Crippa and Beth Williamson have written “The catalogue accompanying the exhibition served as a platform for the artists teaching the two courses to voice their new ideas on art education. The first text in the publication, Pasmore’s ‘A Developing Process in Art Teaching’, acted as a one-page manifesto advocating a radically new art training, founded on abstraction rather than figuration, through the introduction of new foundations in art training, on a scientific basis, in all schools of art and technology. Harry Thubron’s thinking stemmed from his engagement with the ideas of the poet and critic Herbert Read (1893–1968), especially Read’s Education Through Art 1943. Thubron’s commitment to an intuitive process of making was evident in his teaching and in the work he produced. It was unusual for Thubron to commit his ideas to print, but in a rare written contribution to the catalogue for The Developing Process exhibition in 1959 he predicted that courses would ‘become increasingly concerned with a more analytic and scientific approach to colour-form, space and nature – and in complementary terms, with a more vital and free pursuit of the intuitive and instinctive mark.’”
The Developing Process was the subject of "Basic Design”an exhibition curated by Elena Crippa and Beth Williamson at Tate Britain, 25 March – 25 September, 2013.
Title: The developing process: work in progress towards a new foundation of art teaching as developed at the Department of Fine Art, King’s College, Durham University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and at Leeds College of Art.
Authors: Including contributions by Victor Pasmore, Harry Thubron, Richard Hamilton, Tom Hudson, Alan Davie and Terry Frost.
Publisher: Department of Fine Art, King’s College, Durham University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Date of Publication: 1959
Binding: Softcover
Provenance: From the library of Franc Dixon (1928-2019), architect and co-designer of Peterlee New Town with Victor Pasmore.
Condition: Very Good
A rare early catalogue produced to accompany the exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1959.
The Developing Process was first presented in 1959 at the Hatton Gallery and then at the ICA in London. The exhibition was a collaboration between Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore from King’s College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Harry Thubron and Tom Hudson from Leeds College of Art. The Developing Process served as a seminal occasion and was responsible for the promotion of "Basic Design” the organiser’s groundbreaking approach to art training which was to influence higher education in art for generations to come.
As Elena Crippa and Beth Williamson have written “The catalogue accompanying the exhibition served as a platform for the artists teaching the two courses to voice their new ideas on art education. The first text in the publication, Pasmore’s ‘A Developing Process in Art Teaching’, acted as a one-page manifesto advocating a radically new art training, founded on abstraction rather than figuration, through the introduction of new foundations in art training, on a scientific basis, in all schools of art and technology. Harry Thubron’s thinking stemmed from his engagement with the ideas of the poet and critic Herbert Read (1893–1968), especially Read’s Education Through Art 1943. Thubron’s commitment to an intuitive process of making was evident in his teaching and in the work he produced. It was unusual for Thubron to commit his ideas to print, but in a rare written contribution to the catalogue for The Developing Process exhibition in 1959 he predicted that courses would ‘become increasingly concerned with a more analytic and scientific approach to colour-form, space and nature – and in complementary terms, with a more vital and free pursuit of the intuitive and instinctive mark.’”
The Developing Process was the subject of "Basic Design”an exhibition curated by Elena Crippa and Beth Williamson at Tate Britain, 25 March – 25 September, 2013.
Title: The developing process: work in progress towards a new foundation of art teaching as developed at the Department of Fine Art, King’s College, Durham University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and at Leeds College of Art.
Authors: Including contributions by Victor Pasmore, Harry Thubron, Richard Hamilton, Tom Hudson, Alan Davie and Terry Frost.
Publisher: Department of Fine Art, King’s College, Durham University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Date of Publication: 1959
Binding: Softcover
Provenance: From the library of Franc Dixon (1928-2019), architect and co-designer of Peterlee New Town with Victor Pasmore.
Condition: Very Good
A rare early catalogue produced to accompany the exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1959.
The Developing Process was first presented in 1959 at the Hatton Gallery and then at the ICA in London. The exhibition was a collaboration between Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore from King’s College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Harry Thubron and Tom Hudson from Leeds College of Art. The Developing Process served as a seminal occasion and was responsible for the promotion of "Basic Design” the organiser’s groundbreaking approach to art training which was to influence higher education in art for generations to come.
As Elena Crippa and Beth Williamson have written “The catalogue accompanying the exhibition served as a platform for the artists teaching the two courses to voice their new ideas on art education. The first text in the publication, Pasmore’s ‘A Developing Process in Art Teaching’, acted as a one-page manifesto advocating a radically new art training, founded on abstraction rather than figuration, through the introduction of new foundations in art training, on a scientific basis, in all schools of art and technology. Harry Thubron’s thinking stemmed from his engagement with the ideas of the poet and critic Herbert Read (1893–1968), especially Read’s Education Through Art 1943. Thubron’s commitment to an intuitive process of making was evident in his teaching and in the work he produced. It was unusual for Thubron to commit his ideas to print, but in a rare written contribution to the catalogue for The Developing Process exhibition in 1959 he predicted that courses would ‘become increasingly concerned with a more analytic and scientific approach to colour-form, space and nature – and in complementary terms, with a more vital and free pursuit of the intuitive and instinctive mark.’”
The Developing Process was the subject of "Basic Design”an exhibition curated by Elena Crippa and Beth Williamson at Tate Britain, 25 March – 25 September, 2013.
Title: The developing process: work in progress towards a new foundation of art teaching as developed at the Department of Fine Art, King’s College, Durham University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and at Leeds College of Art.
Authors: Including contributions by Victor Pasmore, Harry Thubron, Richard Hamilton, Tom Hudson, Alan Davie and Terry Frost.
Publisher: Department of Fine Art, King’s College, Durham University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Date of Publication: 1959
Binding: Softcover
Provenance: From the library of Franc Dixon (1928-2019), architect and co-designer of Peterlee New Town with Victor Pasmore.
Condition: Very Good