The Craft of Painting: 6 Classic Books on Techniques and Styles
Classic Guides to Painting Technique, Composition, Color, Style, and Artistic JudgmentBy Ernest Govett, A. de Beruete y Moret, C. Geoffrey Holme, Lewis Spence, Willard Huntington Wright, Arthur Seymour Jennings, Charles H. Caffin, Henry P. Bowie
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The Craft of Painting gathers six classic texts into a capacious account of painting as craft, discipline, and cultural language. Its pages move between practical instruction, aesthetic criticism, historical reflection, and discussions of national and modern styles, revealing how questions of materials, composition, color, and technique are inseparable from changing ideals of artistic value. The collection's distinctive strength lies in its juxtaposition of workshop knowledge with interpretive prose, allowing foundational concerns—how pictures are made, seen, and judged—to emerge across contrasting critical registers. The contributors represent a broad Anglo-European world of art writing, including painters, critics, historians, connoisseurs, and popularizers of artistic knowledge. Their varied professional commitments bring different emphases to the volume: close attention to painterly process, engagement with Old Master traditions, interest in artistic movements, and efforts to make visual culture legible to wider audiences. Together, these voices situate painting within the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century expansion of art history, criticism, museum culture, and technical education, while preserving disagreements about taste, tradition, and innovation. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking more than a manual of procedures. It offers an illuminating encounter with multiple ways of thinking about painting, from the handling of media to the historical life of styles. Students, artists, and general readers alike will find in its dialogues a rich educational resource and an invitation to reconsider the enduring relation between technique, vision, and criticism.
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Table of contents
1On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan
2On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan
3Introduction by Iwaya Sazanami1
4CHAPTER ONE. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
5CHAPTER THREE. LAWS FOR THE USE OF BRUSH AND MATERIALS
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6CHAPTER FOUR. LAWS GOVERNING THE CONCEPTION AND EXECUTION OF A PAINTING
7CHAPTER FIVE. CANONS OF THE AESTHETICS OF JAPANESE PAINTING
8CHAPTER SEVEN. SIGNATURES AND SEALS
9Spanish Painting
10Spanish Painting
11LIST OF ARTISTS WHOSE WORKS ARE REPRODUCED IN THIS VOLUME
12The Story of Dutch Painting
13The Story of Dutch Painting
14CHAPTER I THE END OF THE OLD
15CHAPTER III BEGINNING OF THE NEW
16CHAPTER V REMBRANDT HARMENSZ VAN RIJN
17CHAPTER VI THE INFLUENCE OF HALS AND REMBRANDT
18CHAPTER VIII GERARD TERBORCH, JAN VERMEER, AND JAN STEEN
19CHAPTER IX BIBLICAL SUBJECTS AND PORTRAITURE
20CHAPTER XI VAN GOYEN AND HOBBEMA
21Art Principles with Special Reference to Painting
22Art Principles with Special Reference to Painting
23Art Principles
24BOOK I
25CHAPTER V
26CHAPTER IX
27CHAPTER X
28CHAPTER XI
29CHAPTER XII
30CHAPTER XIII
31BOOK II
32CHAPTER III
33Footnote (pt. 1)
34Footnote (pt. 2)
35INDEX OF SCULPTORS, PAINTERS, AND WORKS OF ART
36GENERAL INDEX
37Painting by Immersion and by Compressed Air: A Practical Handbook
38CHAPTER I.
39CHAPTER II.
40CHAPTER IV.
41CHAPTER V.
42CHAPTER VIII.
43CHAPTER IX.
44CHAPTER XI.
45CHAPTER XIII.
46Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning
47Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning
48FOREWORD
49REPRODUCTIONS
50Modern Painting (pt. 1)
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