This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ... give the idea merely of agreeableness, like sounds, apart from all function, and give pleasure; or, an object not essentially beautiful in itself may become so to the mind by the recognition of its adaptation to perform some particular function. Take, for instance, the hand for handling, or the foot for walking: if we ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ... give the idea merely of agreeableness, like sounds, apart from all function, and give pleasure; or, an object not essentially beautiful in itself may become so to the mind by the recognition of its adaptation to perform some particular function. Take, for instance, the hand for handling, or the foot for walking: if we are acquainted with the mechanical appliances of the foot in walking, we are charmed, and look at it, apart from its form, as a thing of beauty; and in proportion as we know and are charmed with Nature's appliances in the human foot, so shall we be disgusted with and intolerant of the utter vileness and tyranny of fashion, in dictating to a world of reasonable but unreasoning votaries heels two inches higher than the Wise Designer saw fit to make them. 190. The principle here referred to will apply not only to architecture, sculpture, painting, and ornament, but to almost everything by which we are surrounded. Thus it will be seen, then, that in a work of true art there must be a fitness, both in form and in function, of the various parts composing it, which, as will be shown in a short chapter on Ornament, must precede everything else. The walls and furniture of our rooms, the floors or carpets on which we tread, the crockery and silver on our tables, the ornaments on our mantel-shelf, and even the very fireirons themselves, all should be subject to this principle. How often do we see highly elaborate fenders and pokers--the latter so heavy and ornate that a deputy has to be appointed, which is sometimes, in irony, called the 'curate.' About the hearth there should be as little ornament in 'relief as possible. And as the carpet is intended as a surface to be walked upon, all striking patterns on it should be avoided. The principle will apply...
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Add this copy of Handbook of Drawing to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by BookScene rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hull, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1880 by C. Scribner.
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Very Good. 12mo 6.75-7.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. C. Scribner, New York, NY 1880. 270 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy! Light general wear. Spine ends frayed. Size: 12mo 6.75-7.75'' tall. 'The purpose of this work is to furnish such information on Elementary Art Education as is not likely to be met with in any other compact form. It has been prepared under the guiding principle that all true education consists in the cultivation of the judgment. Books of Examples, good and bad, are in abundance; but the language of Art, any more than Greek or German, is not to be learned by merely copying its signs. Art has its grammatical elements and rules, and should be studied in its exact delineative and intellectual aspect, as well as in its more emotional expression. The former will find its sphere in the classroom, the latter amidst the beauties of Nature, or in the studio. ' Art: Painting Technical 6326.
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