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G.S.A. Students' Association weekly publication 'SPANK'

Collection of year long editions of GSA Students Association newsletter 'SPANK', mostly from 1985-1986, with some later issues dating from 1987, 1988, 1990 and 1991. A large quantity have neither issue no. nor exact date of publication. Organised chronologically.

Collection includes:

  • SPANK, issue no.1, [18] Sep 1985 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no.2, [25] Sep 1985 (including sheet summary of minutes from the last SRC meeting, 18 September 1985) (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no. 3 , [02] Oct 1985 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no. [5] , [16] Oct 1986 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no.6, [30] Oct 1985 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no..[7], [06] Nov 1985 (3 copies)
  • SPANK, issue no.8, [13] Nov 1985 (3 copies)
  • SPANK, issue no.9, 20 Nov 1985 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no.75, [15] Jan 1986 (3 copies)
  • SPANK, issue no. [ ] , [29] Jan 1986 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no. [ ] , [05] Feb 1986 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no. [ ] , [09] April 1986 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no. [ ] , May 1986 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no. [ ] , May 1986 (3 copies)
  • SPANK, issue no. [ ] , 15 Oct 1986 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no. [ ] , March 1987 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no. [ ] , May 1987 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no. [ ] , Feb 1988 (1 copy)
  • SPANK, issue no. [ ] , Oct 1990 (1 copy)
  • SPANK 10, Feb 1991 (1 copy)

The Glasgow School of Art Student Association

G.S.A. Students' Association weekly publication 'BLANK' and variations

Pack including year long (1984-1985) editions of G.S.A. Student's Association hand out issues 1 - 30 (excluding issues 19,20 + 25), and a Christmas special with information about accessing benefits in the holidays. Initially, the publication is called 'BLANK' but this varies across issues.

Pack includes:

  • BLANK, issue no. 1, 03 Oct 1984 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 2, 10 Oct 1984 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 3, 17 Oct 1984 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 4, 24 Oct 1984 (3 copies)
  • PLANK, issue no. 5, 31 Oct 1984 (2 copies)
  • CLONK, issue no. 6, 07 Nov 1984 (3 copies)
  • SPANK, issue no. 7, 14 Nov 1984 (2 copies)
  • BLINK, issue no. 8, 28 Nov 1984 (1 copy)
  • FLUNK, issue no. 9, 06 Dec 1984 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 10, 13 Dec 1984 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, Christmas special, 1984-1985 (1 copy)
  • DRUNK, issue no. 11, 09 Jan 1985 (1 copy)
  • FREEG, issue no. 12, 16 Jan 1985 (1 copy)
  • EORGE, issue no. 13, [23 Jan 1985] (2 copies)
  • JACKS, issue no. 14, 30 Jan 1985 (3 copies)
  • ONNOW, issue no. 15, 06 Feb 1985 (4 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 16, 20 Feb 1985 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 17, 17 Feb 1985 (1 copy)
  • BLANK, issue no. 18, 6 Mar 1985 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 21, 17 Apr 1985 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 22, 24 Apr 1985 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 23, 01 May 1985 (1 copy)
  • BLANK, issue no. 24, 08 May 1985 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 26, 21 May 1985 (1 copy)
  • BLANK, issue no. 27, 29 May 1985 (1 copy)
  • BLANK, issue no. 28, 05 Jun 1985 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 29, 12 Jun 1985 (2 copies)
  • BLANK, issue no. 30, 18 June 1985 (1 copy)

The Glasgow School of Art Student Association

Fifteen Degrees Plus

Magazine produced by the students of the Department of Printed Textiles, June 1979.

Cover design by Colin Renfrew.

The Glasgow School of Art

Activities Week

Harry Barnes' papers relating to Activities Week at the Glasgow School of Art. Papers are mostly about the invitation of interesting speakers from the Arts sector to speak to students at Activities Week but also include other organisational papers. Activities Week began in 1971 with a circular letter to staff dated 04 Feb 1971 reading: "Arising out of a decision taken at a School Council meeting, a Committee of staff and students have prepared a programme of Activities which it is hoped will act as a stimulus to both staff and students midway through the Session" (within folder: DIR/13/13/5/4). Folders as follows: DIR/13/13/3/1: Activities Week Papers, 1971-1972 (1 folder): Includes: Correspondence about the Chairman's Lunch; correspondence thanking participants following Activities Week events; draft timetables and programmes; correspondence about visiting, travel and board arrangements for speakers at Activities Week including: David Hockney, Kenneth Grange, Magnus Pyke, J McGrath, and Eduardo Paolozzi; programme from the 'Dunstable Consort', a musical group providing a concert at Activities Week 1971-1972. DIR/13/13/3/2: Activities Week Papers, 1972-1973 (1 folder): Includes: Papers of the 'Action Group' for Activities Week e.g. notes of meetings; correspondence with invited speakers about matters such as travel and board arrangements, and thanks for participation, including the speakers: Peter Blake, Professor Reyner Banham, G M Shaw, John Gretton, Brian Ansen, Robert Mansley; copy of the published Activities Week 1973 programme; Activities Week work schedule providing details of what is required for each event; Activities week list of lunch invitations; correspondence with official bodies about aspects of Activities Week e.g. permission for the release of balloons; draft programmes for Activities Week; copy of printed magazine 'The Lifetime of my Bumpy Days' produced for Activities Week; list of names of those on the Action Group Committee; correspondence with School staff members and others involved in the organisation of Activities Week thanking them for their efforts; programme for a symposium on 20 Feb 1973 with the title 'Glasgow + or -'; document 'Outline Proposals for Symposium'; correspondence with speakers at the Symposium; correspondence about a display of Town and Country Planning artistic posters for Activities Week; correspondence about the organisation of an Activities Week Ceilidh; pressclipping about John Berger adding funds to the Booker Prize; notes about Activities Week costs. DIR/13/13/3/3: Activities Week Papers, 1973-1974 (1 folder): Includes: Draft programmes; correspondence about arrangements, travel and board for Activities Week speakers e.g. Michael Gold, Graham Caine, Bruce Haggart, Colin Moorcraft, Lutz Becker, Richard Smith, Chris Orr, Emilio Coia, Peter Cook, Ron Herron, Martin Dalby, L A Bawden, Andy Park; correspondence about insurance for a Richard Smith Exhibition; Activities Week Group Meeting minutes; financial estimates for Activities Week; biography notes about Richard Smith. DIR/13/13/3/4: Activities Week Papers, 1974-1976 (1 folder): Includes: Correspondence regarding the Student Representative Council, meetings to discuss Activities Week and student/staff communication; informational memoranda about Activities Week 1976; Activities Week meetings minutes; notices of Activities Week meetings; correspondence with the Scottish Arts Council about Activities Week; correspondence with official bodies such as Strathclyde Police, Council, and the City of Glasgow Parks Department about activities on Sauchiehall Street for Activities Week 1976; updates on Activities Week progress; correspondence with Radio Clyde about Activities Week events; correspondence with school staff in various departments about contributions to Activities Week; correspondence about a change in dates for Activities Week 1976; papers about a Lute Concert in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre; correspondence with invited speakers/participants including: Patrick Heron, Geoffrey McNab from Scottish Ballet, Victor Papanek, John Foreman, John Young, Rigby Graham, Paul Findlay, Derick Jarman; copy of a printed programme for Activities Week 1975; draft programmes for Activities Week; correspondence with the Corporation of Glasgow Planning Department about a poster display; papers about a Norman Adams Exhibition; notes regarding possible speakers for Activities Week; draft programmes for Activities Week 1974; lunch invitations 1974.

Mac

Mac Number One. Mackintosh School of Architecture publication including various articles produced by staff and students and an interview with Andy MacMillan of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia. Also known as "Mac Mag" or "Macmag".

The Glasgow School of Art

The Tree of Personal Effort

From The Magazine, Spring 1896. Inscribed: The Tree of Personal Effort, The Sun of Indifference, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, January 1895.' The exact meaning of the symbolism of this work, and its companion, 'The Tree of Influence' has eluded all commentators on Mackintosh's early water-colours. The obvious source of the symbolism is nature, and Mackintosh here reaches his most extreme distortion of organic forms.' (Roger Billcliffe).

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

The Descent of Night

Appears in The Magazine, April 1894. 'The central figure is based upon that used in the 1893 design for a diploma for the GSA and like that in 'The Harvest Moon', has wings like an angel. Here, however, she appears naked and her outstretched arms and hair merge and are transformed into barren tree-like forms. These descend to the horizon behind which the sun is gradually disappearing under the feet of the winged figure. From the bottom of the picture, and directly beneath the sun, rises a flight of menacing birds. They are presumably nocturnal birds of prey and they seem to be flying directly towards the viewers. This is one of Mackintosh's earliest uses of this strange bird, which was to become more stylised and to appear in many different forms, in several media in his oeuvre.' (Roger Billcliffe).

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Autumn

Bound in volume, The Magazine, November 1894. 'Behind a stylised tree stands another of Mackintosh's mysterious female figures, but this is the first one to appear that is not meticulously drawn. Only the head is shown in any detail, and the shape of the body is hidden by a voluminous cloak from which not even its limbs appear. This figure was to be repeated many times, becoming more and more stereotyped until, with the banners designed for the Turin Exhibition in 1902, the head is the only recognisably human part of a figure with a twelve-foot long, pear shaped torso. In 1895-96, Mackintosh was to develop this drawing into a poster for the Scottish Musical Review (Howarth, p1, 9F). The same cloaked figure appears with similar formal emblems at the ends of the branches of the bush.' (Roger Billcliffe).

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

A Pond

Bound in the November 1894 edition of 'The Magazine'. "It must have been something like this watercolour.... that evoked the 'critics from foreign parts' (as reported by Gleeson White in The Studio, pp88-9) to deduce 'the personality of the Misses MacDonald from their works' and see them as 'middle-ages sisters, flat footed, with projecting teeth and long past matrimony... gaunt, unlovely females'. Gleeson White who visited Glasgow to see the Mackintosh group was pleasantly surprised to meet two laughing comely girls scarce out of their teens." (MacLaren Young).

MacNair, Frances Macdonald

Cabbages in an Orchard

From The Magazine, April 1894. The long text by Mackintosh which accompanies this watercolour in The Magazine (reproduced in full in Billcliffe's catalogue) suggests that he had already encountered public hostility to his work, possibly even from fellow students, on the grounds of incomprehensibility.

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

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