The UK originality debate took place only 40 years ago. Then both print workshops and critics thought new photographic processes available to artists would make their work less'original' - Discuss in relation to the Kelpra screenprinting studio.
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The UK originality debate took place only 40 years ago. Then both print workshops and critics thought new photographic processes available to artists would make their work less 'original'. Discuss in relation to the Kelpra screenprinting studio and after. Since the beginning of the 20th century, many advances have been made in technology, particularly in the fields of print, and design based media. This accelarating curve of knowledge in turn has raised many issues concerning not just the boundaries and limitations of art, but also it's future and direction. Specifically I will be discussing the originality debate of 1959 and general trends in art and ideas relating to the growing force of the information age. The woodcut invented reproduction in graphic art and with time, everything on the planet is culminating into a boiling pot of information, commercialism, corporative systems and human greed. 'Where is the wisdom we have...


