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  • THRESHOLD CONCEPTS
    • ABOUT THE THRESHOLD CONCEPTS
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #1
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #2
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #3
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #4
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #5
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #6
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #7
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #8
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #9
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPTS: A CRITICAL POINT
  • KS3 PROGRAMME
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPTS: KS3 PROGRAMME
    • TC1: MAKING MARKS - ON SURFACES, IN SPACE
    • TC2: EXPRESSIVE APPROACHES
    • TC4: EXPLORING (& ABUSING) ART HISTORIES
    • TC5: PLAYFUL, PURPOSEFUL, ABSURD
    • TC6: MATERIAL MATTERS - INTUITION, TOUCH, SENSATION
    • TC7: A SENSE OF PLACE
    • TC8:VALUE & BALANCE; REPRESENTATION & ABSTRACTION
    • TC9: Speaking Truth to Power - issue-based art
  • COUCH TO ARTIST
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: A 9-STEP PROGRAMME
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 1 MARKS; WORDS
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 2 VIBRATIONS; SENSATIONS
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 3 TAKING SHAPE
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 4 PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 5 PLAY, TIME
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 6 HEAD, HANDS, HEART
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 7 ART, WORDS; MEANINGS, CONTEXTS
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 8 VALUES & MEASURES
  • RESOURCES
    • #abstractadvent
    • PRIMARY RESOURCES >
      • INTRODUCTION
      • PRIMARY: DADA WORKSHOP
      • Superheroes! (And patterned pants)
      • Robots!
      • Ancient Greece: figures and forms
      • Eek! A wolf ate my sketchbook
      • Ancient Egypt: What a Relief!
      • Shapes and (hi)stories
      • Figures & Factories
    • Why study Art?
    • LESSON RESOURCES >
      • THE GRID - METHOD AND MISCHIEF
      • Noughts & Crosses - playing with art (hi)stories
      • THE ART OF INSTRUCTION
      • PREHISTORY NOW
      • Self-Portraits (Pt.1) About Face
      • Self-Portraits (Pt.2) More than just a pretty face
    • ARTICLES >
      • ABOUT ABSTRACTION: HENRY WARD
    • Preparing for the Personal Study
  • SHOP
  • ABOUT
  • THRESHOLD CONCEPTS
    • ABOUT THE THRESHOLD CONCEPTS
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #1
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #2
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #3
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #4
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #5
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #6
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #7
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #8
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPT #9
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPTS: A CRITICAL POINT
  • KS3 PROGRAMME
    • THRESHOLD CONCEPTS: KS3 PROGRAMME
    • TC1: MAKING MARKS - ON SURFACES, IN SPACE
    • TC2: EXPRESSIVE APPROACHES
    • TC4: EXPLORING (& ABUSING) ART HISTORIES
    • TC5: PLAYFUL, PURPOSEFUL, ABSURD
    • TC6: MATERIAL MATTERS - INTUITION, TOUCH, SENSATION
    • TC7: A SENSE OF PLACE
    • TC8:VALUE & BALANCE; REPRESENTATION & ABSTRACTION
    • TC9: Speaking Truth to Power - issue-based art
  • COUCH TO ARTIST
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: A 9-STEP PROGRAMME
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 1 MARKS; WORDS
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 2 VIBRATIONS; SENSATIONS
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 3 TAKING SHAPE
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 4 PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 5 PLAY, TIME
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 6 HEAD, HANDS, HEART
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 7 ART, WORDS; MEANINGS, CONTEXTS
    • COUCH TO ARTIST: TASK 8 VALUES & MEASURES
  • RESOURCES
    • #abstractadvent
    • PRIMARY RESOURCES >
      • INTRODUCTION
      • PRIMARY: DADA WORKSHOP
      • Superheroes! (And patterned pants)
      • Robots!
      • Ancient Greece: figures and forms
      • Eek! A wolf ate my sketchbook
      • Ancient Egypt: What a Relief!
      • Shapes and (hi)stories
      • Figures & Factories
    • Why study Art?
    • LESSON RESOURCES >
      • THE GRID - METHOD AND MISCHIEF
      • Noughts & Crosses - playing with art (hi)stories
      • THE ART OF INSTRUCTION
      • PREHISTORY NOW
      • Self-Portraits (Pt.1) About Face
      • Self-Portraits (Pt.2) More than just a pretty face
    • ARTICLES >
      • ABOUT ABSTRACTION: HENRY WARD
    • Preparing for the Personal Study
  • SHOP
  • ABOUT

LESSON RESOURCE: stuff & nonsense 

“Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.” MARCEL DUCHAMP

ABOUT

This resource is in support of Threshold Concept 7: Art is not fixed in meaning; context is everything You can read the 'big ideas' relating to this concept here. It also links most directly to TC#3. The insights and activities are aimed at KS4 students but are easily adaptable for other age groups.

THEMES

This project takes the broad theme of 'objects' as a starting point. It is being written and published in stages here.

The first part considers natural forms, as subject matter and material matter - the very 'stuff' from which art originates, shaping its tools, pigments, surfaces, forms and features.
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IN THE ARTROOM

Click on the slideshow below to view the introductory slides to this project. Use these slides to help you develop your thinking and research around this theme.

FOR DISCUSSION

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WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW?

Practical ideas for the classroom

WE ARE INCREASINGLY separated from contact with nature. we have come to forget that our minds are shaped by the bodily experience of being in the world - its spaces, textures, sounds, smells and habits [...] we are literally 'losing touch', becoming disembodied, more than in Any historical period before ours. 
ROBERT Macfarlane

FURTHER READING

The following texts have been chosen to promote wider contextual study. Students should consider the author's intentions, their chosen writing style, and how the texts combine research and historical facts alongside personal insights and opinions.
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