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Handwriting
1968. No Edition Remarks. 51 pages. Pictorial paper covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
- GenresArt
52 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1968
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January 8, 2019
Great little book, another one to share/work through with my grandchildren as they get a bit older. I remember handwriting lessons at my primary school, and how beautiful my new marbled green Osmiroid fountain pen was. This makes me want to buy another fountain pen (that one long gone!) and also to write in pencil. Now that the plastic plague has been fully bought to our attention, my good old Bic biros won't be replaced!
April 7, 2017
These are a few books I am thinking of displaying in my gallery overlooking the Ruthven Storytelling Garden. They represent for me different views or skills that may inspire others in their own artistic development. I explain here my reasoning or feeling.
Handwriting is no longer considered such an essential to the ability to “write one’s voice”. Before the advent of so many computer-based programmes for children, the development of hand-eye coordination went hand in hand with the development of writing and thinking skills. The time it took to shape each letter, the rhythm these shapes required in bodily movements, the sense of drawing something from within oneself as much as the scratch of pencil or the measured pouring of ink from within a pen, all made the craft of writing a true creation from imagined world to physical presence.
Tom Gourdie was awarded an MBE for his services to calligraphy, as well as influencing the Swedish Board of Education and lecturing students at Colleges of Education in England and the Continent. The layout of this brief book not only shows the shaping of individual letters, repeated into lines, but a range of words and sentences in which they can be seen in a variety of relationships.
Brief paragraphs also explain shape and rhythm in much the way one would expect poetry to be taught.
Surely this is a reminder to adults about the basics below their assumptions of their own skill-base as much as an introduction to younger people of skills they may have missed out on learning.
Then there is the challenge of modern society where so many people of differing ethnic backgrounds are brought together in community. Where better than a storytelling garden to remind of stepping stones of understanding that are not as simple as we might have been lead to believe?
If I remember my own language base and the thoroughness by which it was instilled in me, how better will I cope with the duel challenge of understanding those of another language group coming to these shapes and sounds for the first time as adults, and also gain patience for myself possibly learning some of their languages?
If this seems to daunting as a beginning, then let us just draw.
Handwriting is no longer considered such an essential to the ability to “write one’s voice”. Before the advent of so many computer-based programmes for children, the development of hand-eye coordination went hand in hand with the development of writing and thinking skills. The time it took to shape each letter, the rhythm these shapes required in bodily movements, the sense of drawing something from within oneself as much as the scratch of pencil or the measured pouring of ink from within a pen, all made the craft of writing a true creation from imagined world to physical presence.
Tom Gourdie was awarded an MBE for his services to calligraphy, as well as influencing the Swedish Board of Education and lecturing students at Colleges of Education in England and the Continent. The layout of this brief book not only shows the shaping of individual letters, repeated into lines, but a range of words and sentences in which they can be seen in a variety of relationships.
Brief paragraphs also explain shape and rhythm in much the way one would expect poetry to be taught.
Surely this is a reminder to adults about the basics below their assumptions of their own skill-base as much as an introduction to younger people of skills they may have missed out on learning.
Then there is the challenge of modern society where so many people of differing ethnic backgrounds are brought together in community. Where better than a storytelling garden to remind of stepping stones of understanding that are not as simple as we might have been lead to believe?
If I remember my own language base and the thoroughness by which it was instilled in me, how better will I cope with the duel challenge of understanding those of another language group coming to these shapes and sounds for the first time as adults, and also gain patience for myself possibly learning some of their languages?
If this seems to daunting as a beginning, then let us just draw.
June 5, 2022
Lovely bit of history Hopefully handwriting will still be valuable as it was in my day!
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