Bernard Chaet
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 170
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By interviews with prominent artists of all schools, as well as an occasional backward glance at work from previous periods, Bernard Chaet has explored the relationship between an artist's chosen materials and technique, and the forms in which he expresses his vision. In specific discussions with painters working in oils and the various water techniques, with sculptors who employ metals of different kinds in different ways, with graphic artists, both draftsmen and printmakers, he develops his view that technique and vision are inseparable: the technique inspiring and controlling the vision, while the vision alters and expands the technique. In the course of the book, most of the traditional media are treated, although often as they have been modified by present-day workers, but also a great deal attention is paid to new materials, such as the plastics, like Lucite or polyvinyl acetate, which have opened up new possibilities for the artist's form-making.