| Description | File mostly relates to Butt's education at Central School of Art and Design, and Goldsmiths' College. It includes prospectuses, information guides, regulations, examination papers, school notices, report forms, and timetables.
Material often annotated by Butt.
File includes :
- guide to Winchester Cathedral
- book list for unidentified fine art department (1982-1983)
- General Certificate of Education in mathematics issued to Butt's partner Nicholas Edward Hodge (June 1984)
- English Language examination paper issued by Associated Examining Board for the General Certificate of Education' (June 1984)
- information sheets and booklets issued by Association of Art Institutions; Centre d'Arte Verrocchio, Siena, Italy; Fulbright Commission; Greater London Arts; Inset (Information & Advice Network on Southwark Education & Training); London College of Printing; New York Studio School; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (1985-1991)
- mostly annotated photocopies of sheet music and notes (1985-1988). Pieces include the Russian Lullaby 'Cradle Song'; Cornelius Gurlitt, 'The Hunt'; 'Petite Waltz', theme tune to BBC programme 'Come Dancing'; 'Night Spot off Holborn'; 'Stukeley Street Stomp'; Franz Xaver Gruber, 'Silent Night'; Denes Agay, 'Moonlit Pagoda'; Antonín Dvořák, 'Symphony no. 9' (aka 'New World Symphony'); 'Marche Triangle'; Wings, 'Mull of Kintyre'; Franz Schubert, 'Rosamunde'; Ralph McTell, 'Streets of London'; The New Seekers, 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)'; 'Au Claire de la Lune'; 'Bouncing'; 'Merrily'; 'Air des Bouffons'; 'One Plus One'; and 'Jingle Bells'
- card from education officer, Inner London Education Authority (ILEA), County Hall, London, to Butt (7 May 1987), relating to the latter's application for award
- guidance notes for grant applications issued by Art and Design Admissions Registry, ILEA
- regulations issued by British Museum
- completed but unsent Arts Council Collection purchasing application form
- individual results notice and statement of entry issued by University of London School Examinations Board (June 1987)
- material relating to Butt's Spanish-language lessons
- handwritten letter from Carlos and Béatrice, Terrassa, Spain, to Butt (3 May or September 1988)
- introduction letters for Butt by Jon Thompson, chairperson, fine art studies, Goldsmiths' College, to Pilar Alvarez, Universitat de Barcelona, and Xavier Corberó, Spain (1988)
- copy memorandum from Pamela Beevers, assistant examinations officer, Goldsmiths' College (10 January 1990), forwarded by Olive Higgins, visual arts secretary, Goldsmiths', to Butt
- typescript letter from Steve Guest to Butt (1 November 1990); and draft reply to Guest in pencil with drawing of crucifix or crucifixion
- fax copy of Felix Hess' paper 'Machines for chirping and silence', presented at 'Science 91', British Association annual general meeting, Plymouth (25-30 August 1991)
- Butt's draft texts, notes and drawings, including 'Pinups of the male nude' and 'Roland Barthes, Lover's Discourse', and texts on gay artist Mario Dubsky
- undated draft letter to Jane
- a draft essay on realism and idealism in the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- photocopied articles and chapters from books. Authors include : writers Bertolt Brecht and Umberto Eco; philosophers Geoffrey Bennington, Arthur Danto, Brian David Ellis, Rom Harré, and Alasdair MacIntyre; art historians W.J.T. Mitchell, Fred Orton and Kaja Silverman; and Futurists Valentine de Saint-Point and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Subjects include deconstruction
- cover letter from Leigh Gallery, Leigh Street, Bloomsbury, London, to Butt, originally enclosing cheque for sale of his 1984 print 'Rester Jester'(24 January 1992)
- draft typescript 'Aesthetics in art and science' by Arthur I. Miller, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University College London, forwarded to Butt for comments (16 August 1992)
- handwritten letter from [Jed Scott], Hotel Elysees-Ponthieu, Rue de Ponthieu, Paris, France, to Butt (28 September 1993)
- pencil drawing of fantastic biomorphic figure
- copies in pencil of Japanese artworks
- stray material relating to artworks. |