"Almost a hundred years have passed since Johannes Itten developed the Bauhaus's pioneering preliminary course -- the model and inspiration for what later came to be called the Foundation Course in Art and Design. This book comes from a desire to understand the Foundation courses as they exist today. 72 short assignments from around the world offer a reflection of current concerns, experiments, and ideas from artists, designers, educators and historians -- the methods, skills, approaches, and key insights that working artists and teachers consider crucial to teaching in the twenty-first century. This book brings together exercises related to a two-part conference called 'A History Uncovered; A Future Imagined: The Foundation Course in Art and Design,' a collaboration between 'Art School Educated,' Tate Research and Paris College of Art held in London and Paris in June 2013. Intended as a practical source book for teachers, students, and anyone curious to try."--Book jacket.

Includes extraordinary and special sessions.

We don`t know what we are capable of until we try. We don`t know our nature until we feel a threat to our lives. We don`t know our world. We don`t know our history. In The Assignment, a doctor coming home after a hard night shift encounters a brutal gang. They use and kill young girls at will. It also appears they are government men. The physician undergoes a sudden mental metamorphosis. He kills most all of the gang, but it is not enough for him, and it is not the end. Step by step he is dragged deeply into a secret criminal society of power and sick souls. Nothing is enough. Nothing is fair. The doctor decides to track the whole gang down and annihilate them all. He believes nothing so vulgar and coarse deserves to live. Will the avenger go too far?