Art, Artisans and Apprentices by James Ayres
This publication demonstrates how the crafts of the visual arts were once acquired via apprenticeships in contradistinction to the aesthetic-based methods of later academies of art.
This is a hugely informative book that answers the question 'how did you train to become an artist in Britain or America in the days before the first formal academies were founded in London in 1768 and Philadelphia in 1805?'-- SALON - The Society of Antiquaries Online Newslett SALON - The Society of Antiquaries Online Newslett IT IS THIRTY years since James Ayres published The Artist's Craft: A History of Tools, Techniques and Materials. Now in this more ambitious and wide-ranging study he returns to the issue of artistic training in the workshop tradition. -- The Burlington Magazine The Burlington Magazine A well-published nonacademic specialist on the art and architecture especially of Georgian Britain... (On the aim of the book) ...to offer intriguing glimpses into comparable experiences in colonial North America. (On his writing style) He proceeds with rich and colorful anecdotal material and draws easily on an impressive range of literary and historical sources, leaping boundaries of time and place as he does so. (On the presentation) ...it would be heavy going without the very useful interdisciplinary glossary of terms (continues) ... Oxbow should be thanked for allowing Ayres to include it, and for the elegant appearance of the whole... -- Journal of British Studies Journal of British Studies An invaluable and comprehensive survey of a wide variety of practices...this work is a major achievement and provides an incomprabale guide to the training of painters and sculptors prior to the modern consumerist age. -- William Vaughan Antiquaries Journal
As the third generation of his family to have been actively engaged in the visual arts, James Ayres was, in effect, apprenticed from childhood to work in paint, plaster wood and stone. Following graduation from Goldsmiths College, London University and the Royal Academy Schools, a fellowship in the US introduced him to the arts of British North America.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782977421 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782977422 |
| Title | Art, Artisans and Apprentices |
| Author | James Ayres |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxbow Books |
| Year published | 2014-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 536 |
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