DOI issue:
No. 265 (April 1915)
DOI article:Art school notes
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21212#0226
Art School Notes
thereto,” delivered before [the Royal Society ot
Arts by Mr. Arthur Wilcock, whose strictures on
the art school training of designers in connection
with these industries called forth some interesting
expressions of opinion for and against his own.
The chief objection urged by those who speak on
behalf of the manufacturers is that the art school
BOOKBINDING BY A. L. HACKMAN
BOOKBINDING BY W. ISON
( Central School of Arts and Crafts)
EMBROIDERY AND CUT LINEN WORK. BY BESSIE FYSON
EMBROIDERED TABLE CENTRE. BY JOHANNA M. REWER
( Central School of Arts and Crafts)
training of the designer is not practical—that it
does not take into account the actual conditions
of production; while on behalf of the Schools it
is urged that too many manufacturers are utterly
indifferent to the value of the work which is being
done in the schools and are blind to the possibilities
which the Schools offer them of securing valuable
recruits for their industries. The truth seems to
be that, as pointed out by Mr. Paulson Townsend,
“ there is a lack of sympathy between the Schools
and the manufacturers ; one has an artistic standard
of its own, and apparently refuses to consider in a
logical manner the calls of the other.”
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thereto,” delivered before [the Royal Society ot
Arts by Mr. Arthur Wilcock, whose strictures on
the art school training of designers in connection
with these industries called forth some interesting
expressions of opinion for and against his own.
The chief objection urged by those who speak on
behalf of the manufacturers is that the art school
BOOKBINDING BY A. L. HACKMAN
BOOKBINDING BY W. ISON
( Central School of Arts and Crafts)
EMBROIDERY AND CUT LINEN WORK. BY BESSIE FYSON
EMBROIDERED TABLE CENTRE. BY JOHANNA M. REWER
( Central School of Arts and Crafts)
training of the designer is not practical—that it
does not take into account the actual conditions
of production; while on behalf of the Schools it
is urged that too many manufacturers are utterly
indifferent to the value of the work which is being
done in the schools and are blind to the possibilities
which the Schools offer them of securing valuable
recruits for their industries. The truth seems to
be that, as pointed out by Mr. Paulson Townsend,
“ there is a lack of sympathy between the Schools
and the manufacturers ; one has an artistic standard
of its own, and apparently refuses to consider in a
logical manner the calls of the other.”
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