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Kate Broome
Time Shift Series Editor
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What do Mary Quant and Pete Townshend have in common? What linked the boutiques of Carnaby Street with the Hornsey student sit-in of May 1968? Like so much of what made the 1960s swing, they were the product of the British Art School. From the late Fifties to the early Seventies Britain's art schools were the most exciting educational establishments in Britain - the engines of the 1960s counter culture, they produced a generation of young go-getters who would take on the establishment.
The MP Kim Howells, who was one of the leaders of the Hornsey sit-in in 1968, remembers the time fondly. "It was somewhere you just spent all your time: painting, arguing about why you liked David Hockney, learning how to weld. Looking back on it, it was a perfect time, a perfect place, and a perfect education".
Using a mixture of archive footage, archive interviews with Ian Dury and Pete Townshend, and fresh testimonies from the people who studied and taught at the schools, director Sebastian Barfield's Time Shift: Art School tells this very British story for the first time.
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