Theory of Design: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Design:And the Methods of Instruction Suited to Teachers, Designers, and Art-Students, and a Text-Book for Schools
From the Introduction.
FOR the last twelve years drawing has been taught in the public schools of many of the great cities and towns of the country. It has been done with varying success, according to the wisdom of those who have had the matter in charge. In general the effort has met the difficulties of all new enterprises; it has had a large amount of prejudice to contend with, and the established order of the schools to displace, so as to find proper time and opportunity: communities and teachers have had to be educated in the uses and benefits of drawing, both as an element in education and as a factor in the industrial arts. Sometimes drawing has been ridden as a hobby; sometimes it has fallen into utter neglect ; and, more frequent still, it has been taught with an entire want of interest : so that the time devoted to it has been thrown away. In this effort to teach drawing in public schools, design has become one of the subdivisions of the subject. In some cities design has been made very successful, and a great degree of taste has been shown by the pupils; and an aptitude and genius for this work has been shown which argues well for the future of industrial art in America. The per cent of pupils who can do good work in the public schools is much larger than anyone would suppose without making the trial. It often happens, that, in a class of fifty pupils, there is not one who does not draw with skill, and produce a very creditable design: such pupils as these are to have the industries and art of America in their keeping in the immediate future.
The present work is intended to promote the study of design in public schools or by private students. The author hopes he has made plain some of the most obvious and essential principles of design and of the methods of criticism. If he has succeeded in this effort, he will have the consciousness of having been of some use in facilitating this most important study.
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FOR the last twelve years drawing has been taught in the public schools of many of the great cities and towns of the country. It has been done with varying success, according to the wisdom of those who have had the matter in charge. In general the effort has met the difficulties of all new enterprises; it has had a large amount of prejudice to contend with, and the established order of the schools to displace, so as to find proper time and opportunity: communities and teachers have had to be educated in the uses and benefits of drawing, both as an element in education and as a factor in the industrial arts. Sometimes drawing has been ridden as a hobby; sometimes it has fallen into utter neglect ; and, more frequent still, it has been taught with an entire want of interest : so that the time devoted to it has been thrown away. In this effort to teach drawing in public schools, design has become one of the subdivisions of the subject. In some cities design has been made very successful, and a great degree of taste has been shown by the pupils; and an aptitude and genius for this work has been shown which argues well for the future of industrial art in America. The per cent of pupils who can do good work in the public schools is much larger than anyone would suppose without making the trial. It often happens, that, in a class of fifty pupils, there is not one who does not draw with skill, and produce a very creditable design: such pupils as these are to have the industries and art of America in their keeping in the immediate future.
The present work is intended to promote the study of design in public schools or by private students. The author hopes he has made plain some of the most obvious and essential principles of design and of the methods of criticism. If he has succeeded in this effort, he will have the consciousness of having been of some use in facilitating this most important study.
Theory of Design: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Design:And the Methods of Instruction Suited to Teachers, Designers, and Art-Students, and a Text-Book for Schools
From the Introduction.
FOR the last twelve years drawing has been taught in the public schools of many of the great cities and towns of the country. It has been done with varying success, according to the wisdom of those who have had the matter in charge. In general the effort has met the difficulties of all new enterprises; it has had a large amount of prejudice to contend with, and the established order of the schools to displace, so as to find proper time and opportunity: communities and teachers have had to be educated in the uses and benefits of drawing, both as an element in education and as a factor in the industrial arts. Sometimes drawing has been ridden as a hobby; sometimes it has fallen into utter neglect ; and, more frequent still, it has been taught with an entire want of interest : so that the time devoted to it has been thrown away. In this effort to teach drawing in public schools, design has become one of the subdivisions of the subject. In some cities design has been made very successful, and a great degree of taste has been shown by the pupils; and an aptitude and genius for this work has been shown which argues well for the future of industrial art in America. The per cent of pupils who can do good work in the public schools is much larger than anyone would suppose without making the trial. It often happens, that, in a class of fifty pupils, there is not one who does not draw with skill, and produce a very creditable design: such pupils as these are to have the industries and art of America in their keeping in the immediate future.
The present work is intended to promote the study of design in public schools or by private students. The author hopes he has made plain some of the most obvious and essential principles of design and of the methods of criticism. If he has succeeded in this effort, he will have the consciousness of having been of some use in facilitating this most important study.
FOR the last twelve years drawing has been taught in the public schools of many of the great cities and towns of the country. It has been done with varying success, according to the wisdom of those who have had the matter in charge. In general the effort has met the difficulties of all new enterprises; it has had a large amount of prejudice to contend with, and the established order of the schools to displace, so as to find proper time and opportunity: communities and teachers have had to be educated in the uses and benefits of drawing, both as an element in education and as a factor in the industrial arts. Sometimes drawing has been ridden as a hobby; sometimes it has fallen into utter neglect ; and, more frequent still, it has been taught with an entire want of interest : so that the time devoted to it has been thrown away. In this effort to teach drawing in public schools, design has become one of the subdivisions of the subject. In some cities design has been made very successful, and a great degree of taste has been shown by the pupils; and an aptitude and genius for this work has been shown which argues well for the future of industrial art in America. The per cent of pupils who can do good work in the public schools is much larger than anyone would suppose without making the trial. It often happens, that, in a class of fifty pupils, there is not one who does not draw with skill, and produce a very creditable design: such pupils as these are to have the industries and art of America in their keeping in the immediate future.
The present work is intended to promote the study of design in public schools or by private students. The author hopes he has made plain some of the most obvious and essential principles of design and of the methods of criticism. If he has succeeded in this effort, he will have the consciousness of having been of some use in facilitating this most important study.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781663526540 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 07/05/2020 |
| Series: | White's Industrial Drawing , #1 |
| Pages: | 248 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d) |
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