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Title: Design and TraditionAuthor: Amor FennRelease date: December 31, 2016 [eBook #53850]Most recently updated: October 23, 2024Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file wasproduced from images available at The Internet Archive)

Title: Design and Tradition

Author: Amor Fenn

Release date: December 31, 2016 [eBook #53850]Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file wasproduced from images available at The Internet Archive)

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Contents.

Index.:A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,R,S,T,U,V,W.

List of Illustrations(In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers] clicking on the image will bring up a larger version.)

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DESIGN AND TRADITION

“They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.”—Oscar Wilde.

Sketch Design for Equestrian Statue, by E. A. Rickards, F.R.I.B.A.This drawing is remarkable as an anticipation of eventual appearance. Thoroughly impressionistic in treatment, all irrelevant detail is omitted.

Sketch Design for Equestrian Statue, by E. A. Rickards, F.R.I.B.A.

This drawing is remarkable as an anticipation of eventual appearance. Thoroughly impressionistic in treatment, all irrelevant detail is omitted.

UNIVERSAL ART SERIESEDITED BY FREDERICK MARRIOTT

DESIGN ANDTRADITIONA SHORT ACCOUNT OF THEPRINCIPLES AND HISTORICDEVELOPMENT OF ARCHI-TECTURE AND THE APPLIEDARTSBYAMOR FENNcolophonLONDONCHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD.1920

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THEPRINCIPLES AND HISTORICDEVELOPMENT OF ARCHI-TECTURE AND THE APPLIEDARTS

BYAMOR FENNcolophonLONDONCHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD.1920

colophonTHE WESTMINSTER PRESSHARROW ROADLONDON

IT may be urged with some reasonable basis of truth that much of the modern art work fails to attain the level of that of the past. It must be conceded, however, that demand and appreciation is more general and widely diffused. As social conditions have developed, interest in environment has been stimulated. Improved processes resulting in more economic production have rendered possible an indulgence by those of moderate means, attainable only at earlier periods by the wealthier class.

As a result of this more general appreciation the professional services of the artist are necessarily in greater request, thus affording a sphere of work not only lucrative but temperamentally attractive.

At the present time the facilities available to the prospective artist are considerably greater than at any previous period. In every district and important centre, there are schools specialising in the Arts and Crafts, giving opportunities for training at fees that are purely nominal. Most of these deal with the various phases of artistic expression on logical and sound lines, but the knowledge and experience essential to a successful artistic career is invariably acquired in professional work to which the art school training is preparatory.

To those specialising in design, the study of Historic Style is of paramount importance. Intelligent investigation will show that in all the varying phases, the underlying factors are much the same, and appreciation of these will be found invaluable in personal work.

Necessarily brief, this book has been prompted by the memory of early bewilderment and difficulties, when a guiding hand would have saved much valuable time and mis-directed energy.

A considerable amount of the available space is devoted to Architectural features, with the conviction that a knowledge of these will be found helpful in the formation of methods, logical and constructive.

Attention is directed to the frontispiece, a typical example of the extraordinary genius of E. A. Rickards, F.R.I.B.A., the original of which is in the possession of Philip Connard, A.R.A., to whom indebtedness for its use is acknowledged.

The author’s thanks are also due to Miss Dora Bard and Mr. C. E. Bernard for the reproduction of drawings made by them during their tenure in successive years of the “Travelling Studentship” of the Society of British Decorators.

For the use of the following photographs the author desires to make acknowledgment to the Authorities of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, as holders of the Crown copyright:

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