Decorative Art From a Workshop Point of View: A Paper Read at the Edinburgh Art Congress, November, 1889 (Classic Reprint)

Name: Decorative Art From a Workshop Point of View: A Paper Read at the Edinburgh Art Congress, November, 1889 (Classic Reprint)
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By Ashbee, Charles Robert

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Excerpt from Decorative Art From a Workshop Point of View<br/><br/>This Congress is in itself a recognition of the fact that the social question is the key to the artistic. Its purpose is, as far as I conceive it, to popularise, to organise, to socialise art. The object of this paper, starting with the recognition of the social bearings of art, is to suggest the application to the art problem, and to the question of art development, the ideals and practicalities of an ordinary nineteenth-century workshop, in the belief that a purer and healthier condition both of indus trial activity, and artistic sensitiveness can only be attained by a combination of the two. TO start with the aphorism that art must be carried on in the workshop and not in the studio, ln the face of the fact that all the great art work of the present day has been carried on in the studio and not in the workshop, appears at first sight a paradox; but it is easy of explanation. In the first place, we are dealing with art as a whole, and not with picture painting in the second place, we are dealing with decorative art, in which the painting of a picture is a matter of minor importance: this accepted, the aphorism will not be difficult of establishment. I do not wish it to be taken as in any sense for or against either, but I should draw the distinction between the workshop and the studio somewhat in the following manner.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 17
Release Date:: 2018-08-24
Publication Date:: 2018-08-24
Publisher:: Forgotten Books
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0428709575

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