366 Pages
325 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
George Bankart first wrote The Art of the Plasterer in 1908. It was then re-issued, with amendments, a few years later. Now available from Donhead as a facsimile edition, this impressive, well illustrated volume offers an artistic interpretation of the way plaster was used in response to stylistic changes. Bankart was an architect inspired by the Arts & Crafts movement who cared... Read more
Introduction; Ancient stucco-duro; Sgraffito, or scratched ornament; Stucco-duro in England; Wattle and dab and parge-work; The English school of plasterwork; Scottish plasterwork; Irish plasterwork; English plasterwork of the later Renaissance; The eighteenth-century degeneration; Adam brothers and their work; Modern plasterwork: Part I: present day methods - Part II: The teaching of the past: a comparison; Notes addressed to students and apprentices; Index.
Biography
George Bankart
