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owed something to that particular lineage of art education, but it stood apart as
a something more fluid, less rigid and, some would say, chaotic and
revolutionary in its approach (fig. 2). Chaos, of course, was in the air in the early
1960s. As art theorist and educator Gyorgy Kepes writes:
The formlessness of our present life has three obvious aspects.
First, our environmental chaos, which accounts for inadequate
living conditions, waste of human and material resources, and
pollution of air, water, and earth. Second, our social chaos – lack
of common ideas, common feelings, common purpose. Thirdly,
our inner chaos – individual inability to live in harmony with
oneself, inability to accept one’s whole self and let body, feelings,
and thought dwell together in friendship. 34
Fig. 2: Still Life in ATC studio, Goldsmiths College (1964/5). Courtesy of Tony Collinge.
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