
Hopes and Fears for Art
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ISBN10: 1546651950
ISBN13: 9781546651956
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 17 2017
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781546651956
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 17 2017
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
However, I have not undertaken to talk to you of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, in the narrower sense of those words, since, most unhappily as I think, these master-arts, these arts more specially of the intellect, are at the present day divorced from decoration in its narrower sense. Our subject is that great body of art, by means of which men have at all times more or less striven to beautify the familiar matters of everyday life: a wide subject, a great industry; both a great part of the history of the world, and a most helpful instrument to the study of that history. A very great industry indeed, comprising the crafts of house- building, painting, joinery and carpentry, smiths' work, pottery and glass-making, weaving, and many others: a body of art most important to the public in general, but still more so to us handicraftsmen; since there is scarce anything that they use, and that we fashion, but it has always been thought to be unfinished till it has had some touch or other of decoration about it.
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