LINE & FORM
BY WALTER CRANE
LONDON: G. BELL & SONS, LTD.
First published, medium 8vo, 1900.
Reprinted, crown 8vo, 1902, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1914.
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON
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PREFACE
As in the case of "The Bases of Design,"to which this is intended to form a companionvolume, the substance of the followingchapters on Line and Form originally formeda series of lectures delivered to the students ofthe Manchester Municipal School of Art.
There is no pretension to an exhaustivetreatment of a subject it would be difficult enoughto exhaust, and it is dealt with in a way intendedto bear rather upon the practical work of an artschool, and to be suggestive and helpful to thoseface to face with the current problems of drawingand design.
These have been approached from a personalpoint of view, as the results of conclusions arrivedat in the course of a busy working life whichhas left but few intervals for the elaboration oftheories apart from practice, and such as theyare, these papers are now offered to the widercircle of students and workers in the arts ofdesign as from one of themselves.
They were illustrated largely by means of roughsketching in line before my student audience, aswell as by photographs and drawings. The roughdiagrams have been re-drawn, and the otherillustrations reproduced, so that both line and toneblocks are used, uniformity being sacrificed tofidelity.
WALTER CRANE.
Kensington, July, 1900.
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I
- Origin and Function of Outline—Silhouette—Definition of Boundariesby—Power of Characterization by—Formation of Letters—Methods ofDrawing in Line—The Progressive Method—The Cal ...
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