In this article written for the publication artscanda in July of 1968, Kurt provides an account of his teaching experience at UCLA, which had effectively come to an end with the non-renewal of his teaching contract. "...the leading conceptual or theoretical problems to be formulated in such a history of twentieth century art lie just in those areas where the traditional fine arts overlap the various realms of popular art, folk art, commercial and industrial art, non-art or even anti-art.," he states, and later, "The basic aim of this course was to provide students with some of the capacity and inspiration necessary for approaching the world around them as one great, fascinating, complex, mind-blowing work of art."
The New Education in the Arts
By 1967 Kurt had become the most popular professor on the UCLA campus, but his unconventional approach drew the ire of the administration and fellow faculty.
