Line and Form (1900)
Line and Form, published in 1900, collects the lectures that Walter Crane gave as director of design at the Manchester Municipal School of Art. Crane, famous for his picture books and his wallpapers, sets out the grammar of decorative drawing: the origin and meaning of line, the language of outline, the treatment of form in relief and in the flat, the choice and adaptation of line and form to materials and purposes, the expression of movement and of character, the relations of line to color, and the principles of ornament and pattern. His own diagrams and drawings illustrate every point. The book was a companion to his earlier Bases of Design. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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