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Scope and Contents Internet Virtual Museum of Modernism: Ken (Albert Richard William Kenelm) Cox was born in 1927, in Wotton Under Edge, Gloucestershire. In 1949 he enrolled at UWE Art College in Bristol, where he did first drawings and murals. During the same year he changed to Camberwell Art School where he studied painting until 1951. After leaving Camberwell, he worked as a teacher in Lasborough, Gloucestershire, and in 1955 turned towards landscape painting. From 1958 to 1962 Cox lived in London, where he taught at the Acland Burghley School and continued to do landscape paintings. With yet another relocation to The Park, Kingscote, Gloucestershire, his artistic interests shifted. He established close contacts with artists and poets, among them Dom Sylvester Houédard and John Furnival, that would shape his future work. First Wall Sculpturesemerged, along with motorized objects and sign machines (Harmonograph Drawing Machine, 1966), works that led him entirely away from painting. Increasingly,...