The North West Art School Record Machine
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2019. The North West Art School Record Machine. Bury Art Museum 12 Oct 2019 - 25 Jan 2020
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2019. The North West Art School Record Machine. Bury Art Museum 12 Oct 2019 - 25 Jan 2020
| Creators | Beck, J. and Cornford, M. |
|---|---|
| Collaborators | Biggs, B. (Curator) and Au, K. (Curator) |
| Description | The grand nineteenth century art school buildings of the North West were intended to train workers for local industry, but after the Second World War they also served to incubate the generations of musicians and designers responsible for transforming British popular culture. The North West Art School Record Machine has been developed out of John Beck and Matthew Cornford’s survey of the region’s art school buildings, exhibited at Bluecoat in Liverpool (2018–19). Some of the images from that show are augmented here with new details focusing on the inscriptions, friezes, or stained glass windows that once announced in graphic form on the outside what was going on inside the art schools. In addition, for this new exhibition, Bluecoat’s Artistic Director Bryan Biggs has gathered an astonishing range of over 100 record sleeves, produced by designers and musicians who all, in one capacity or another, emerged from the art schools of the North West. To complete the exhibition, the Record Machine also presents a display of unique mock-ups and material from renowned North West-trained designers. |
| Keywords | art school |
| popular music | |
| graphic design | |
| Year | 12 Oct 2019 |
| Web address (URL) | https://www.buryartmuseum.co.uk/Gallery-Exhibitions |
The Art School Project
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2024. The Art School Project. Visual Culture in Britain. 22 (1-3), pp. 33-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2024.2428059
The Art School and the Everyday: No Life Without Art
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2024. The Art School and the Everyday: No Life Without Art. in: Co-operative Education, Politics, and Art: Creative, Critical, and Community Resistance to Corporate Higher Education London Routledge.
The Art Schools of the Midlands
Beck, J. 2024. The Art Schools of the Midlands. Martin Hall Gallery, University of Loughborough 16 May - 28 Jun 2024
The Art Schools of the West Midlands
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2023. The Art Schools of the West Midlands. The New Art Gallery Walsall 17 Feb - 02 Jul 2023
The Art Schools of the East Midlands
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2023. The Art Schools of the East Midlands. Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University 22 Sep - 02 Dec 2023
Harmony, Contrast & Discord: Rochdale and the Art Schools of the North West
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2021. Harmony, Contrast & Discord: Rochdale and the Art Schools of the North West. Touchstones Rochdale 18 May - 03 Jul 2021
Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s, Natasha Zaretsky (2018)
Beck, J. 2021. Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s, Natasha Zaretsky (2018). European Journal of American Culture. 40 (1), pp. 85-87. https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac_00039_5
On the Beach
Beck, J. 2021. On the Beach. Cultural Politics. 17 (1), pp. 135-144. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8797627
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Beck, J. 2021. Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal. London Reaktion Press.
Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde
Beck, J. and Bishop, R. 2020. Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde. Durham, North Carolina Duke University Press.
The Time Capsule and the Cut Up: Negotiating Temporality, Anticipating Catastrophe
Beck, J. and Dorrian, M. 2020. The Time Capsule and the Cut Up: Negotiating Temporality, Anticipating Catastrophe. Theory, Culture & Society. 37 (7-8), pp. 95-114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420958049
The Art Schools of North West England
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2018. The Art Schools of North West England. Bluecoat, Liverpool 17 Nov 2018 - 31 Mar 2019
The Return of the Art and Technology Lab
Beck, J. and Bishop, R. 2018. The Return of the Art and Technology Lab. Cultural Politics. 14 (2), pp. 225-243. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-6609102
Utah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret
Beck, J. 2017. Utah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret. in: Lübecker, N. and Rugo, D. (ed.) James Benning's Environments: Politics, Ecology, Duration Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 39-54
Photography and Abstraction [Special Issue of Photographies journal]
Cunningham, D.I. and Beck, J. 2016. Photography and Abstraction [Special Issue of Photographies journal]. Photographies. 9 (2), pp. 129-228.
Overt Research
White, N. and Beck, J. 2016. Overt Research. in: Beck, J. and Bishop, R. (ed.) Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 252-272
The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know
Beck, J. 2016. The Future: RAND, Brand and Dangerous to Know. in: Beck, J. and Bishop, R. (ed.) Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 35-49
Introduction: The Long Cold War
Beck, J. and Bishop, R. 2016. Introduction: The Long Cold War. in: Beck, J. and Bishop, R. (ed.) Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-32
Introduction: Photography and Abstraction
Beck, J. and Cunningham, D.I. 2016. Introduction: Photography and Abstraction. Photographies. 9 (2), pp. 129-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2016.1181971
High Formalism: The aerial view and the colour field
Beck, J. 2016. High Formalism: The aerial view and the colour field. Photographies. 9 (2), pp. 187-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2016.1181969
A Military Definition of Reality: Researching Literature and Militarization
Beck, J. 2016. A Military Definition of Reality: Researching Literature and Militarization. in: Williams, A.J., Jenkings, A., Woodward, R. and Rech, M.F. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods Abingdon Routledge. pp. 84-94
The Call of the Anthropocene
Beck, J. 2014. The Call of the Anthropocene. Cultural Politics. 10 (3), pp. 404-414. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2795765
Postcatastrophic utopias
Beck, J. and Dorrian, M. 2014. Postcatastrophic utopias. Cultural Politics. 10 (2), pp. 132-150. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2651729
The Art School and the Culture Shed
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2014. The Art School and the Culture Shed. Kingston upon Thames Centre for Useless Splendour.
The purloined landscape: photography and power in the American West
Beck, J. 2014. The purloined landscape: photography and power in the American West. Tate Papers. 21.
Strangers to the stars: abstraction, aereality, aspect perception
Beck, J. 2013. Strangers to the stars: abstraction, aereality, aspect perception. in: Armitage, J. and Bishop, R. (ed.) Virilio and visual culture Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 46-68
Beyond the darkness of the just lived moment
Beck, J. 2013. Beyond the darkness of the just lived moment. in: Makhoul, B. (ed.) Palestinian video art: constellation of the moving image Jerusalem Al Hoash. pp. 156-169
Between the castle and the village
Beck, J. 2013. Between the castle and the village. in: Bishop, R. and Hon, G. (ed.) Bashir Makhoul, Aissa Deebi: otherwise occupied Jerusalem Al Hoash. pp. 150-165
In and out of the box: Bashir Makhoul’s Forbidden City
Beck, J. 2012. In and out of the box: Bashir Makhoul’s Forbidden City. Theory, Culture and Society. 29 (7-8), pp. 341-357. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412459088
The art school in ruins
Beck, J. and Cornford, M. 2012. The art school in ruins. Journal of Visual Culture. 11 (1), pp. 58-83. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412911430467
The place of catastrophe: Clarence King, Mike Davis and the politics of contingency
Beck, J. 2011. The place of catastrophe: Clarence King, Mike Davis and the politics of contingency. in: Wragg, D.A. and Heffernan, N. (ed.) Culture, environment and eco-politics Newcastle Upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 84-110
Signs of the sky, signs of the times: photography as double agent
Beck, J. 2011. Signs of the sky, signs of the times: photography as double agent. Theory, Culture and Society. 28 (7-8), pp. 123-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411423773
Concrete ambivalence: inside the bunker complex
Beck, J. 2011. Concrete ambivalence: inside the bunker complex. Cultural Politics. 7 (1), pp. 79-102. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174311X12861940861789
Et in Arizona ego: Baudrillard on the Planet of the Apes
Beck, J. 2009. Et in Arizona ego: Baudrillard on the Planet of the Apes. in: Bishop, R. (ed.) Baudrillard now: current perspectives in Baudrillard studies Cambridge Polity. pp. 100-115
Dirty wars: landscape, power, and waste in Western American literature
Beck, J. 2009. Dirty wars: landscape, power, and waste in Western American literature. Lincoln University of Nebraska Press.
Velocities of power
Beck, J. and Crosthwaite, P. 2007. Velocities of power. Cultural Politics. 3 (1), pp. 23-34. https://doi.org/10.2752/174321907780031034
Resistance becomes ballistic: Vanishing Point and the end of the road
Beck, J. 2007. Resistance becomes ballistic: Vanishing Point and the end of the road. Cultural Politics. 3 (1), pp. 35-50. https://doi.org/10.2752/174321907780031070
Zapruder, Warhol, and the accident of images
Beck, J. 2005. Zapruder, Warhol, and the accident of images. in: Holloway, D. and Beck, J. (ed.) American visual cultures London Continuum. pp. 183-189
Reading room: erosion and sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk
Beck, J. 2004. Reading room: erosion and sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk. in: Long, J.J. and Whitehead, A. (ed.) W.G. Sebald: a critical companion Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 75-88
Writing the radical center: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American cultural politics
Beck, J. 2001. Writing the radical center: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American cultural politics. Albany State University of New York Press.
Without form and void: the American desert as trope and terrain
Beck, J. 2001. Without form and void: the American desert as trope and terrain. Nepantla: views from South. 2 (1), pp. 63-83.
An over-illuminated world: Reyner Banham and art history in the wilderness
Beck, J. 2000. An over-illuminated world: Reyner Banham and art history in the wilderness. Everything. 3, pp. 26-33.
‘A certain but fugitive testimony': witnessing the light of time in Cormac McCarthy's Southwestern fiction
Beck, J. 2000. ‘A certain but fugitive testimony': witnessing the light of time in Cormac McCarthy's Southwestern fiction. in: Wallach, R. (ed.) Myth, legend, dust: critical responses to Cormac McCarthy Manchester Manchester University Press. pp. 209-216
Blown away: wars visible and invisible in Richard Misrach’s Desert Cantos
Beck, J. 2000. Blown away: wars visible and invisible in Richard Misrach’s Desert Cantos. European Journal of American Culture. 19 (3), pp. 156-166. https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac.19.3.156
Buckminster Fuller and the politics of shelter
Beck, J. 1999. Buckminster Fuller and the politics of shelter. in: Hughes, J. and Sadler, S. (ed.) Non-plan: essays on freedom, participation and change in modern architecture and urbanism Oxford Architectural Press. pp. 116-125
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