E B Bird His book Plates
E B Bird His book Plates
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The foregoing does not mean that Mr, Bird draws only for the photogravure process and engraved copper plate. That is merely his preference, and not everybody cares to go to the expense of a copper plate, but must be contented with a zinc etching, of which there are some few in the following pages* Mr* Bird is really a decorative artist as distin- guished from an illustrative artist* All his designs have a strong decorative feeling, as well as his lettering* The designs all exude decor- ation, b...ut without being flagrant ; his idea of this is that decoration has a definite place in a book-plate if only for its enriching power, if not used in such a way as to make the salient features of the design subservient to it* The application of this can best be seen in the plates for Frank Wood, Charles H* Taylor, Harold D* Holmes and some others* In a cursory glance over the book-plate field here in America it seems to me that the plates are largely the work of so-called decorative de- signers, most of whose work is strictly in the mercantile line, and it is a question whether a man the bulk of whose work is for mercantile purposes can be as effective in the designing of book-plates which require idealism and person- ality, as well as strong inventive powers* From the knowledge that I have of the plates of this country, I should take the negative side, with but few exceptions* It must be borne in mind, however, that the artist is not always free to use his own ideas on a plate, but is hampered by too many suggestions from the prospective own- er* In this connection compare the plate of Frank Wood with the landscape plate of the writer* In the former, the designer was held down to certain things, the use of the books, in their peculiar position, the arms and quotation, etc*, while in my plate there were no suggestions from me whatever, and the result is that as an artistic book-plate it is one of the best if not the best Mr*Bird has made* There is a freedom about it and a sincerity quite refreshing, and it is per- sonal in the introduction of the woodland dale, the reader in the fork of the tree and the jester fooling with art* The Wood plate is not so free and lacks the life of the other.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The foregoing does not mean that Mr, Bird draws only for the photogravure process and engraved copper plate. That is merely his preference, and not everybody cares to go to the expense of a copper plate, but must be contented with a zinc etching, of which there are some few in the following pages* Mr* Bird is really a decorative artist as distin- guished from an illustrative artist* All his designs have a strong decorative feeling, as well as his lettering* The designs all exude decor- ation, b...ut without being flagrant ; his idea of this is that decoration has a definite place in a book-plate if only for its enriching power, if not used in such a way as to make the salient features of the design subservient to it* The application of this can best be seen in the plates for Frank Wood, Charles H* Taylor, Harold D* Holmes and some others* In a cursory glance over the book-plate field here in America it seems to me that the plates are largely the work of so-called decorative de- signers, most of whose work is strictly in the mercantile line, and it is a question whether a man the bulk of whose work is for mercantile purposes can be as effective in the designing of book-plates which require idealism and person- ality, as well as strong inventive powers* From the knowledge that I have of the plates of this country, I should take the negative side, with but few exceptions* It must be borne in mind, however, that the artist is not always free to use his own ideas on a plate, but is hampered by too many suggestions from the prospective own- er* In this connection compare the plate of Frank Wood with the landscape plate of the writer* In the former, the designer was held down to certain things, the use of the books, in their peculiar position, the arms and quotation, etc*, while in my plate there were no suggestions from me whatever, and the result is that as an artistic book-plate it is one of the best if not the best Mr*Bird has made* There is a freedom about it and a sincerity quite refreshing, and it is per- sonal in the introduction of the woodland dale, the reader in the fork of the tree and the jester fooling with art* The Wood plate is not so free and lacks the life of the other.
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