Apprenticeship: The Necessity of Learning by Doing - Couverture souple

Gayford, Martin; Kindersley, David; Kindersley, Lida Cardozo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1874426147 ISBN 13 : 9781874426141

Editeur : Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, 2003

Synopsis

The continuing success of the Workshop and her belief in the value of apprenticeship has convinced Lida of the urgent need to draw attention to this endangered practice. This book is both a reminder of what apprenticeship used to be and a guide to what it can and should be today. It is also a warning, and a plea that this- a vital way of learning- should not be ignored or even lost. David Kindersley strongly believed that the mysteries of his and other crafts should be passed on to future generations, and that it was the practitioner's duty to see that this happened. Over the years since the 1940s some 50 apprentices have been trained to carve letters in stone at David Kindersley's Workshop and at its successor, the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop: the demand by a discerning public for hand-carved inscriptions is ever increasing. As well a training apprentices, David in his lifetime, and Lida- his apprentice, partner and wife- have spread the word of lettercutting through lectures, workshops and exhibitions.

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À propos de l'auteur

Martin Gayford is art critic of The Sunday Telegraph, and contributes to Modern Painters, The Spectator and other publications. His own published works include The Penguin Book of Art Writing (with Karen Wright). He studied philosophy at Cambridge and art history at the Courtauld Institute. His interest in apprenticeship was awakened by visiting the Kindersley Workshop and becoming a friend of Lida Lopes Cardozo and her late husband David Kindersley. David Kindersley (1915-1995) started his artistic career as a sculptor and carver. He was apprenticed to Eric Gill from 1934-1936 and is now regarded as Gill's successor as lettercutter in stone for the second half of the twentieth century. In 1946 he set up his own workshop at Barton near Cambridge. He was commissioned at that time to cut inscriptions for the American Cemetery at Madingley, an enormous task which meant taking on several assistants. Thus began in earnest his commitment to the master-apprentice system on which the Workshop, continued by his widow Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley, operates. Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley studied graphic design at the Royal Academy in the Hague before joining David Kindersley in 1976 as a apprentice in his workshop. She became his partner in David Kindersley's Workshop in 1981 and began training apprentices, a practice she continues to this day. She ha written and published several books on lettering.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cardozo Kindersley Workshop
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1874426147
• ISBN 13: 9781874426141
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 52
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible