Ideals in Art: Papers Theoretical, Practical, Critical

WORKS BY WALTER CRANE
THE BASES OF DESIGN. With 200 Illustrations, many drawn by the author. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. net.
LINE AND FORM. A Series of Lectures delivered at the Municipal School of Art, Manchester. With 157 Illustrations. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. net.
THE DECORATIVE ILLUSTRATION OF BOOKS, OLD AND NEW. With 165 Illustrations. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. net.
LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS
IDEALS·IN·ART: PAPERS·THEORETICAL·PRACTICAL·CRITICAL· BY·WALTER·CRANE·Author·of·“Line&Form”.Et
LONDON:GEORGE·BELL·&·SONS:1905
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The collected papers which form this book have been written at different times, and in the intervals of other work. Most of them were specially addressed to, and read before the Art Workers’ Guild, as contributions to the discussion of the various subjects they deal with; so that they may be described as the papers of a worker in design addressed mainly to art workers. They are not, however, wholly or narrowly technical, and the point of view frequently bears upon the general relation of art to life.
Some of the papers were delivered as lectures to larger audiences, and others have appeared as articles, mostly in journals devoted to art.
Of the former, the one upon the Arts and Crafts movement was prepared for and read as one of a series of lectures given during a recent exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, and is now for the first time printed in its entirety.
The “Thoughts on House-Decoration” was read before the convention of the National Association of Master Painters and Decorators recently held at Leicester.