artist, critic & teacher

Artists: Lindsay Anderson, Brian Groombridge, Christopher Logue, Kenneth Tynan & John Berger 
Authors: Paddy Whannel & Alex Jacobs (intro.), plus above 
Publisher: The Joint Council for Education through Art 
Date: 1958 (?) 
Condition: The first edition, with printed card covers, illustrated throughout in black and white. The covers show a little tanning to the edges and light handling marks consistent with age, one small liquid splash to the back cover. Internally very good, apparently complete and unmarked. 

This interesting slim volume relates to a one-day forum at the NFT of the same title, with the contents being slightly edited (by the speakers) versions of their presentations. The topics covered were:

Art: Battleground or Playground (Lindsay Anderson) 
Making Connections (Kenneth Tynan) 
The Myth of the Artist (John Berger) 
Education: Agent of Change or Impotent Onlooker (Brian Groombridge)

This printed version also includes a poem by Christopher Logue, To My Fellow Artists

A scarce item relating to critical thinking on the arts from the late 1950s, this pamphlet features several leading intellectual figures of the day and illustrates the whole with several stills from films and plays of the period, including A Taste of Honey (almost certainly from the original 1958 stage production at Joan Littlewood's pioneering Theatre Workshop), Kirk Douglas in the 1956 film Lust for Life, Anderson's 1955 Momma Don't Allow and Alain Tanner's 1957 Nice Time and the 1956 Roger Mayne photograph Teddy Boy & Girl.