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Title: | An attempt to define the principles which should regulate the employment colour in the decorative arts |
Authors: | Jones, Owen |
Keywords: | Decorative arts color Lectures and lecturing Color decoration and ornament |
Issue Date: | 1852 |
Publisher: | David Bogue |
Citation: | Jones, O. (1852). An attempt to define the principles which should regulate colour in the decorative arts. Melitensia Miscellanea Collection (Melit-Misc. vol. 40.3). University of Malta Library, Melitensia Special Collections. |
Abstract: | It can scarcely too often be repeated, that amongst the many advantages which must result to England from the gathering of the products of the world's industry in the Great Exhibition, no one is so prominent as that we have thereby learned wherein we were deficient ; and although we may gather from the Lectures which have already been delivered before this Society a high idea of the power, wealth, and industry of this great country; of the untiring enterprise which gathers from a distance the products of every clime ; of the persevering industry which makes them available to the wants of man ; and we may further witness the constant struggle to utilise every gift of Nature, till truly it may be said, nothing has been made in vain ; yet, side by side with success, we have seen much of labour wasted, much knowledge imperfect, much energy misapplied : and when we leave the field of Science and Industry and turn to Art, we have to learn from the Great Exhibition a fruitful lesson ; from leading the van in the march of progress, we must fall into the rear, and suffer to pass before us nations whose efforts we have hitherto but imperfectly appreciated. In that branch of art, the employment of colour, the more immediate subject of this lecture, we were not only behind some of our European neighbours, but, in common with these, were far outstripped by the nations of the East. Let us endeavour to trace the cause of this, and, if possible, discover the principles which in their case have led to so signal a success... [Excerpt] |
Description: | Lectures on the results of the exhibition, delivered before the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the suggestion of H. R. H. Prince Albert, President of the Society. Lecture XX ... with a few words on the present necessity of an architectural education on the part of the public. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/121823 |
Appears in Collections: | Miscellania : volume 040 - A&SCMisc |
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