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ERIC Number: EJ1423792
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-May
Pages: 13
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EISSN: EISSN-1476-8062
Kurt Rowland's Visual Education: A Quiet Force in Post-War Art Pedagogy
Donna Goodwin; P. Bruce Uhrmacher
International Journal of Art & Design Education, v43 n2 p289-301 2024
This paper introduces the life and work of art educator and designer Kurt Rowland (1920-1980) who authored the first set of textbooks on visual education and played a role in the shifting world of art and design education in post-war Britian. We detail the foundational experiences of his extraordinary life in the first half of the 20th century including surviving the Spanish Civil War and "La Retirada," being a 'friendly enemy alien', and becoming one of the Dunera boys forced into Australian internment camps. He later went on to develop a new aspect of art and design education he called visual education. We explore Rowland's notion of a visual education, explicating its features, appraising its import, and situating Rowland's ideas to those of his contemporaries. We explore his motivations and how his work advanced art pedagogy. Finally, we argue that Kurt Rowland has been absent in recent literature on art and design education and that his work, which contains elements that have continued relevance today, should not be overlooked.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain); Spain; Australia
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