The Art of Art Education

A Basic Course in Art
Leslie W. Lawley A.T.D
Lund Humphries
London 1962

This wonderful book is a foundation course for secondary art students with a teaching philosophy heavily influenced by the Bauhaus system, hence the simplicity and rigour you see in the illustrations and artworks made by the children, but it's a very British interpretation of the Bauhaus style - the author was trained by Victor and Wendy Pasmore. I guess my secondary school teachers who taught me art in the 70s would have used this book. The bibliography also lists more OOP art education books I am curious to know more about and may lead to more acquisitions on this theme.


Plate 2 Students' experiments with points including variation in size and tone
(top left) Not touching Girl age 12
(bottom right) Touching. Girl age 12
(top right) Point development. Boy age 12
(bottom left) Intuitive design. Girl age 13



Plate 22
Plain and marbled paper on grey paper with painted white lines.
(top) Girl age 14
(bottom) Boy age 14



Endpaper design - work of girl age 15