Television as a new field for the Artist (Art Workers Guild), 1937
End Date: 19 November 1937
Type: Lecture and discussion
Description: Meeting was held at the Central School of Arts and Crafts as it was not possible to arrange a demonstration of television in the Guild Hall.
A. G. E. Herod spoke on the subject, followed by K. S. Davies, radio-engineer, who explained the technical details. The BBC television station gave a demonstration. Post-interval, H. Speed spoke, followed by M. O'Gorman, H. T. Smith, J. E. M. MacGregor, C. Thomas and others (Fifty-fourth annual report of committee of the Art Workers' Guild, 1938, p. 16).
Policy: 'Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. Visitors must be introduced by a member' (Year's Art, 1913, pp. 169-70).
Locations
Took place at Southampton Row WC London | View on map
At the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
Sources
The fifty-fourth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1938
1938
p. 16
Citing this record
'Television as a new field for the Artist (Art Workers Guild), 1937', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib2_1220885630, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
