DOI Heft:
No. 50 (May, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0270
Studio-Talk
the Austrian exhibits, of which a goodly number ideal, open as to its methods for realisation,
are promised. indeed, by every one whatever his condition or
- estate, but especially open for realisation by the
M. G. Serrurier-Bovy, of Liege, is preparing for labourers who labour daily with their hands, and
the Congo section of the Brussels Exhibition a set by their daily labour contribute to the creation,
of furniture in Congo wood; and I understand this the maintenance and the amelioration of the
indefatigable searcher after novelty will show us material civilisation of mankind. And the core
some entirely fresh and ingenious combinations of and central principle of his ideal, as Mr. Cobden-
form and colouring. Sanderson hastened to explain, was this: that
- whereas a labour of the hands pursued in isolation
On Monday evening, April 5, in the Salle is apt to appear, and in fact to be, a poor and
d'Horloge, at the invitation and under the monotonous occupation, a laying of brick upon
auspices of the New University, Mr. Cobden- brick and nothing more, such labour when pursued
Sanderson gave an address on " Book-binding : in full knowledge of the logical development of its
its Processes and Ideal." The subject of the processes, when pursued in full knowledge of its co-
address, a handicraft, had, Mr. Sanderson said, operative and historical associations, when followed
been chosen by him although at first sight the in full knowledge of. its purpose and possibilities,
labour of the hands might
seem to have very little to *
do, save in a very humble
and utilitarian capacity, with
the elevated functions of a
university, because in his
opinion the most pressing
question waiting for solution
at the present day was the
formation of a grand Ideal
of labour, an ideal which
should give purpose and
dignity to the lives of that
vast majority whose duty and
destiny it was to live by the
daily labour of their hands.
And if, as he believed, such
was the most pressing ques-
tion of the day, upon whom,
he asked, should devolve
the duty of forming that
Ideal and through the spirit
of its institutions and the
lives of its members making
it attractive, and dominant,
and universal, if not upon
the New University, whose
own Ideal had been so ad-
mirably expounded in the
inaugural address delivered
at the opening of the ses-
sion by its Rector, Monsieur
de Greef ? It was, therefore,
that he had chosen a handi-
craft, and that he proposed,
in its demonstration, to
indicate the outlines of an poster by m. van rysselberghe
259
59
mm
11
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the Austrian exhibits, of which a goodly number ideal, open as to its methods for realisation,
are promised. indeed, by every one whatever his condition or
- estate, but especially open for realisation by the
M. G. Serrurier-Bovy, of Liege, is preparing for labourers who labour daily with their hands, and
the Congo section of the Brussels Exhibition a set by their daily labour contribute to the creation,
of furniture in Congo wood; and I understand this the maintenance and the amelioration of the
indefatigable searcher after novelty will show us material civilisation of mankind. And the core
some entirely fresh and ingenious combinations of and central principle of his ideal, as Mr. Cobden-
form and colouring. Sanderson hastened to explain, was this: that
- whereas a labour of the hands pursued in isolation
On Monday evening, April 5, in the Salle is apt to appear, and in fact to be, a poor and
d'Horloge, at the invitation and under the monotonous occupation, a laying of brick upon
auspices of the New University, Mr. Cobden- brick and nothing more, such labour when pursued
Sanderson gave an address on " Book-binding : in full knowledge of the logical development of its
its Processes and Ideal." The subject of the processes, when pursued in full knowledge of its co-
address, a handicraft, had, Mr. Sanderson said, operative and historical associations, when followed
been chosen by him although at first sight the in full knowledge of. its purpose and possibilities,
labour of the hands might
seem to have very little to *
do, save in a very humble
and utilitarian capacity, with
the elevated functions of a
university, because in his
opinion the most pressing
question waiting for solution
at the present day was the
formation of a grand Ideal
of labour, an ideal which
should give purpose and
dignity to the lives of that
vast majority whose duty and
destiny it was to live by the
daily labour of their hands.
And if, as he believed, such
was the most pressing ques-
tion of the day, upon whom,
he asked, should devolve
the duty of forming that
Ideal and through the spirit
of its institutions and the
lives of its members making
it attractive, and dominant,
and universal, if not upon
the New University, whose
own Ideal had been so ad-
mirably expounded in the
inaugural address delivered
at the opening of the ses-
sion by its Rector, Monsieur
de Greef ? It was, therefore,
that he had chosen a handi-
craft, and that he proposed,
in its demonstration, to
indicate the outlines of an poster by m. van rysselberghe
259
59
mm
11
GUATRIE.ME 5ALONI
ti^ANNUEL^D E LAL^£JL-PE VJL
ESTHETIQUEra
OUVCRT TOU5 LES JOURS DE 10A5 H
du JEUDI 25 eevrier au JEUDI 1 AVRIL1807
au wu5ee moderne^jplace DU MUSEE
entree:un franc- lS d1manche 50cent^'