ART STUDENTS TODAY
“Revolt Against Times” (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 22. The principal of London’s Royal College of Art, Mr Robert Darwin, considers that art students today are much more extraordinarily dressed and a lot dirtier than 10 years ago. The Royal College is Britain’s leading art college and takes advanced students on a highly competitive basis. Mr Darwin, writing in the college’s annual report, said students were also less easy to teach today. Chips on their shoulders, "virtually professional epaulettes,” made them less ready to learn. Mr Darwin suggests that the bizarre dress reflects the philosophy of the “beat” generation. He sees the students’ attitude as a revolt against a managerial revolution which offers the possibility of material welfare and mass extinction with equal generosity. Denied the opportunity of carrying any burden, denied responsibility, young people were making a virtue of travelling light.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29265, 25 July 1960, Page 10
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