Main entry:

Blake, Vernon, 1875-1930.

Title & Author:

The art and craft of drawing; a study both of the practice of drawing and of its aesthetic theory as understood among different peoples and at different epochs; especial reference being made to the construction of the human form from the practical draughtsman's point of view, by Vernon Blake.

Publication:

New York, Hacker Art Books, 1971.

Description:

xvi, 414 pages illustrations 27 cm

Notes:
Reprint of the 1927 ed.
Introduction -- Inadequacy of artistic anatomies -- Figure-drawing best method of study -- Ruskin -- Equilibrium -- Integrality -- Cézanne -- Influence of Far East -- The tao -- Sié Ho's six laws -- Want of figure-work among Celts and Germans -- Greek art -- Relations between composition and drawing -- Composition as a bad term -- Art a symbolism -- Mi Fu -- Reason for plastic arts -- Imitation of nature -- Van Gogh and Cézanne -- Modifications of natural form -- Michaelangelo, Matisse -- Wang Wei -- Plastic expression of abstract ideas -- Geometric rigidity -- Luca Cambiaso -- Technical methods -- Methods of brush-holding in Egypt, Greece, China -- Plumb and measuring -- Rhythmic relation of mass -- Rodin -- Moving model -- Simultaneous observation -- Rhythm -- Proportions -- Method of enlarging -- Mass equilibrium -- 'Flat' harmony and 'mass' harmony -- Rhythm of great masses -- Analysis of a drawing -- Recessional modelling -- Modelling in clay -- Suggestion of solidity by line -- Drawing from the antique -- Gravitation -- Stability -- Greek vases -- Perspective surfaces -- Volumes in perspective -- Centre of gravity -- Puvis de Chavannes -- Mou-hsi -- Curve equilibrium -- Growth and gravitation -- Human body is a machine -- Distorted equilibrium -- Aesthetic balance and mechanical balance -- Intentional discords -- Perspective -- Artificiality, symbolism, assumption -- Light and shade -- Experimental perspective -- Binocular vision -- Leonardo -- Foreshortening -- Proportions -- Volumes in recession -- Axes of volumes -- Michael-Angelo -- Ku K'ai Chih -- Defects of European perspective -- Mulptile view-points -- Whistler -- Several perspective systems in one drawing -- Perspective of shadows -- Drawing by shadows -- The main masses of the human body -- Mechanical laws -- Relation between aesthetic and mechanical balance in nude -- Sacral triangle -- Light and shade superposed on mass -- Nude-drawing and architecture -- Ensemble -- Tension -- English cathedrals compared with French -- Salisbury -- Lincoln -- Château d'O -- Re-entering forms in architecture -- Peterborough -- Beauvais -- Pinnacles -- Values -- Progressive finish -- The palette and values -- Value studies on white ground -- Chinese monochrome -- English, French, Chinese, and Japanese poetry compared -- Juxtaposition of elements -- Philosophical systems and art -- Commerce -- Claude -- Pollaiuolo -- Copying pictures -- Van Gogh -- Rembrandt and Mantegna -- Corot and values -- Anatomy and form -- Order of execution -- Degas -- Termination of lines -- Formal art -- Informal art -- Rodin's sculpture -- Euphronios and Rembrandt -- Greece and tangible mass -- Mural decoration -- Flattening -- Balance -- Hazlitt and Molière -- Shakespeare -- Impressionism -- Toulouse-Lautrec -- Ingres -- The frontispiece by Eugène Carrière -- Modelling and sculpture -- Emotional values -- Construction of the human frame -- 'Clasping' of volumes -- Vesalius -- Foreshortening of 'interior' modelling -- Aesthetic judgement -- Leighton's sculpture -- Pronation and supination of hand -- Hukusai -- Need of full study -- Drapery -- Landscape-drawing -- Nude the best school -- Figure- and landscape-drawing -- Rembrandt's landscape -- Turner -- Japanese trinity of heaven, earth, man -- Third-dimensional drawing -- Co-ordinate rhythmic relation -- Recessional foliage masses -- 'Primitive' drawing -- M. Levy-Bruhl defines its nature -- Law of 'participation' -- Tahiti and Altamira -- 'Antithesis' and opposition in 'logical' art -- Symbolical rhythm in 'prelogical' art -- Resemblance an 'after-thought' of art -- Summary of 'prelogical' aesthetic -- Comparision between recent and 'primitive' art -- Conclusion -- Plastic logic -- Verbal ratiocination -- Comparative aesthetic of drawing -- Common factors in art -- Palaeolithic drawing -- Abu Simbel -- Chinese temple -- Modern mechanical forms -- Pedantry and art.

ISBN:

0878170391
9780878170395

Subject:

Drawing.
Dessin.
drawing (image-making)

Form/genre:

Drawing.
drawings (visual works)
Drawings.
Dessins.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 63145
Call No.: PO3636; ID:85-B8152
Status: Available