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. 1904 Excerpt: ...either mechanical or scientific invention, whether they oppose it actively or merely stand aside, only widen the breach they are always deploring between art and industry. Their attitude is the result of ignorance, more or less wilful. None the less it is want of knowing which makes them so unpractical. A designer must ...
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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. 1904 Excerpt: ...either mechanical or scientific invention, whether they oppose it actively or merely stand aside, only widen the breach they are always deploring between art and industry. Their attitude is the result of ignorance, more or less wilful. None the less it is want of knowing which makes them so unpractical. A designer must know what there is to know about design, handicraft or manufacture, its past achievements and its present possibilities, before he can start fair. Not until he knows both sides of the question of industrial design (its many sides would perhaps be the more just expression) is he in a position to judge between one aspect of it and another; his opinions are until then but prejudices. It is because, unfortunately, artists so often look only at one side of it, and manufacturers only at the other--and they happen to be the two opposite sides--that they get on so badly together, and manufacture has become what it is. The attitude of artists is not always such as to command the respect of practical men. To praise the imperfections of mere accident as more beautiful than perfect workmanship, is not to show much real appreciation of design. Nevertheless the artist expert in one art, or in one subdivision of art, is curiously tolerant of imperfections in another, the technique of which is unfamiliar to him. He has been heard to say, when it was pointed out to him that what he was admiring was really only the result of careless or incompetent workmanship, --" So much the better!" and to expatiate at large upon the charms of the unexpected. But it is only in regard to crafts in which he is at most an amateur, that he gives vent to these unworkmanlike opinions. When it is a question of his own craft, he knows better than that. The relation of scie...
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