Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The New Educational Course in Constructive Design
In this course of art instruction the aim of the authors has been to develop naturalistic drawing into design, and to apply it to construction work, in the belief that the realistic is valuable in so far as it is developed and applied in this larger way. The study of design is the foundation for the cultivation of artistic, creative, and critical ability and through this cultivation, judgment will be strengthened and appreciation developed.
Only through demand comes supply, and when public appreciation and good taste are developed the productive activity will be vastly improved. A training in the principles of design and good workmanship - accomplished through construction work and the application of design - will produce not only intelligent buyers but skilled and artistic workers in the industries. These results can never come from rendering drawings from nature or models alone.
Constructive design has a disciplinary, practical, and educational value, making an actual connection between the work of the school and its application in the home and the world of industry. The average individual is so trained in the larger principles of art that he is able understandingly to apply them, and by so doing increase the efficiency of his social and industrial life.
To minimize the expense of equipment for this work in the average school the authors have endeavored to simplify materials and tools required, suggesting as much material as possible from the home. Pupils thus furnishing some of their own equipment feel an added sense of responsibility and appreciation. It is rightly said that "the interest of the child is the greatest factor in the process of education," and the interest can only be instilled when a student knows that his work is for a real purpose, that it is to be put to the test of application in his everyday life.
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