‘A revolution of incalculable effect’: modernism and the teaching of art in schools

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-82
Author(s):  
Daniel Moore
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
School Children ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
County Council ◽  
Abstract Art ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

This chapter explores a range of encounters between modernism and school-children. Focused most sharply on the work of Marion Richardson, teacher of art at Dudley High School for Girls, it ranges across arts education policy in Britain in the early twentieth century and some other initiatives designed to get abstract art into the classroom. Richardson, in particular, has hardly been attended to by modernist scholars, but her work at Dudley, and later at the London County Council, was crucial in transforming the teaching of visual art across Britain.

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