174 Pages
10 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
174 Pages
10 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
174 Pages
10 Color & 28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This study uncovers the plethora of new, innovative drawing strategies that shaped French visual arts at the height of France’s imperial power.
Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Eugene Guillaume, and Félix Ravaisson, among others, designed new drawing procedures that responded to leading concerns of modern art and the exigencies of modern life: landscape painting and picturesque tourism, industrial... Read more
Introduction 1. The Problem of Habit 2. Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran’s System of Visual Memory Training: Plotting Points, Hand-Eye Coordination, and Memorized Metrics 3. Designing Compulsory Drawing Education and the Problem of “Mechanical” Image-Making 4. Drawing Education in a Globalizing Era: Félix Régamey and National Art Instruction
Biography
Shana Cooperstein is Assistant Professor of Art History, School of Humanities, IE University.
