“Now, in order to have anything good made in stuff, or in hard material, we must seek out the artist to provide us with a design, and then a workman to carry it out as mechanically as possible, because we know that if he puts any of his coarser self into it he will spoil it.”
— Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, founder of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, in “Grass of the Desert” (1892)
Too bad blogs don’t just have a “like” button….of course, then I’d be “liking” every post!
It does have a Like button. Nothing wrong with liking every post.
Boy, Ralph was a twit.
How could you call such an obviously superior being a twit? You must be a workman with a exceptionally coarse self!
The starting point for a very twisted path to Yasgur’s farm.
Off the topic, but interesting article about Mary May in the last PW. If done right, I think that her skills might translate into an interesting woodworking TV program.
Dipstick.
Now I’ll have to find a way to slip “coarse self” in a conversation.
Cannot one be both Artist and coarse workman?
Maloof? Nakashima? Krenov? I think they qualify as both.
I am pretty sure they all had shop assistants, perhaps they gave them the coarse work.
1892, eh? Just goes to show that snobbery and ignorance are nothing new.
Birdclyffe – Just a bunch of commie progressives in the guise of woodworkers, being run by a petty little dictator (whitehead). Worked about as well as every other venture into communism.