The eighth of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode Matt and Andrea read a few texts about sculpture and pedagogy. We look at Elena Crippa's essay about how Anthony Caro brought the group crit over from New York and used it to change the Central Saint Martin's sculpture course. We discuss the impact that had on British art schools from the 60s onwards. We also look at David Harding's writing on his time as the course leader for Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1985-2001, which though explicitly was not a medium specific sculpture course, seems to reflect a lot of the issues that we have been speaking about in other episodes through the lens of trying to do something different with art education.
You can download the texts we read for today’s episode and an auto-generated transcript, below.
Crippa, Elena. ‘From “Crit” to “Lecture Performance”’. In The London Art Schools: Reforming the Art World, 1960 to Now. London: Tate Publishing, 2015. Download PDF.
Harding, David. ‘ENVIRONMENTAL ART AT GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART – David Harding’. https://www.davidharding.net/. Accessed 26 April 2022. https://www.davidharding.net/?page_id=402. Download PDF.
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