Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BENGAL MUTINY-George Danger-field-Har-court, Brace ($2). Brief, graphic resume of the Indian Mutiny, guaranteed to make British flesh creep...
...sculpture, probably 500 buy prints: etchings, engravings, mezzotints, woodcuts. Prints are comparatively inexpensive. Even in a city apartment a portfolio of 100 will fit in a bureau drawer. Because of their fluctuating value they appeal to the trading instinct latent in all collectors. But the appreciation of the graphic arts has this difference from the appreciation of painting: a man may have a sound knowledge of Renaissance painting without knowing the difference between tempera and gesso. But a print collector cannot appreciate what he has in his portfolio unless he knows a great deal about the technical processes involved...
...London Studio has just published the first two handbooks in a series on the graphic arts.* Intended as manuals of instruction for art students the books contain little that any first-year student in an art school would not know, are of great value in showing the general public how prints are made, what to look for in the finished proof. Most interesting are the tipped-in photographs showing Etcher West and Woodcutter Leighton at work, pictures of all the etchers' and woodcutters' tools...
...Student Council report also brought out in graphic form the fact that although the number and proportion of low priced rooms in the Houses is greater than in the dormitories formerly reserved for upperclassmen, the great bulk of the new accommodations added by the House Plan have been priced at $280 and above per man, but there is need for lower priced rooms...
Commercial transport operators puffed with pride over the San Diego incident as a graphic demonstration of advances in what they call "instrument" (rather than ''blind") flight. In addition to radio, both for beacon reception and conversation, the United Air Lines plane was equipped with rate-of-climb indicator, artificial horizon and directional gyro, helpful instruments which the Navy planes lacked...