The Nature and Art of Workmanship"In this thoroughly mechanized age, what is the point of craft? Does it make any sense to work with hand tools when machines can do the same job faster, and in many cases better? What visual richness do we lose by embracing a mass-produced world?" "The Nature and Art of Workmanship explores the meaning of skill and its relationship to design and manufacture. Cutting through a century of fuzzy thinking, David Pye proposes a new theory of making based on the concepts of 'workmanship of risk' and 'workmanship of certainty'. And he shows how good workmanship imparts all-important diversity to our visual environment." "No-one who works with tools and materials, or who designs things for others to make, can afford to be without this penetrating book. This newly revised edition includes an illustrated foreword by John Kelsey, former editor of Fine Woodworking magazine, on David Pye's own turned and carved vessels of wood - beautiful, insightful pieces that embody the truth of Pye's ideas."--Jacket. |
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Page 64
... diversity which begins at the smallest visible scale and develops contin- uously upwards from that ; and even then ... diversity depends half the art of workmanship . But for our gener- ation unrelieved regulation is bad , and may even ...
... diversity which begins at the smallest visible scale and develops contin- uously upwards from that ; and even then ... diversity depends half the art of workmanship . But for our gener- ation unrelieved regulation is bad , and may even ...
Page 66
... diversity which it lacked , then we like them . If they seem interesting in themselves but yet remain extraneous to the design — as I think the soot on St. Paul's did ; for it seemed to me to act like disrup- tive camouflage - then we ...
... diversity which it lacked , then we like them . If they seem interesting in themselves but yet remain extraneous to the design — as I think the soot on St. Paul's did ; for it seemed to me to act like disrup- tive camouflage - then we ...
Page 128
... Diversity on the small scale is particularly delightful in regulated workmanship because there it maintains a kind of pleasantly disrespectful opposition to the regulation and precision of the piece seen in the large : as when , for ...
... Diversity on the small scale is particularly delightful in regulated workmanship because there it maintains a kind of pleasantly disrespectful opposition to the regulation and precision of the piece seen in the large : as when , for ...
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achieved aesthetic qualities appearance approximation art of workmanship Arts and Crafts bad workmanship best quality building carving chapter color Crafts movement craftsmanship craftsmen designer's dexterity diversified diversity drawer drawing durability edge effect engine environment equivocality Ernest Joyce example expression fact finish flat formal elements free workmanship hand handicraft highly regulated workmanship idea important Industrial Revolution industry intended design ished jigs joinery judge judgment kinds of workmanship less light reflections look machine machine-tools manship manufacture means Morris natural never Number pattern perfect perhaps photograph plate pleasure polished surface precise production properties Pye's range result rough workmanship Ruskin Sakai Hoitsu scale seen shape ship of risk shows simply smooth Stones of Venice surface qualities table engine Technics and Civilization technique things thought tion trade truth to material Wild service tree wood words workman workmanship of certainty workmanship of risk