Comments on: A 19th-Century Crayon and Watercolor Instruction Book http://rectoversoblog.com/2009/10/15/a-19th-century-course-of-instruction-in-crayons-and-watercolors/ RARE and UNUSUAL IMAGES from F. A. BERNETT BOOKS Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:00:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Imprint | Coloring for Grown-Ups http://rectoversoblog.com/2009/10/15/a-19th-century-course-of-instruction-in-crayons-and-watercolors/comment-page-1/#comment-613 Imprint | Coloring for Grown-Ups Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:14:13 +0000 http://rectoversoblog.com/?p=40#comment-613 [...] Coloring is an inherently tongue-in-cheek activity: after all, it’s premised on the genteel fiction that an untalented amateur filling in the colors actually completes an artwork. Rightly or not, we’ve come a long way from the civilized era of Couleru’s 1860 coloring book Nouveau Cours Élémentaire de Coloris et d’Acquerelle. [...] [...] Coloring is an inherently tongue-in-cheek activity: after all, it’s premised on the genteel fiction that an untalented amateur filling in the colors actually completes an artwork. Rightly or not, we’ve come a long way from the civilized era of Couleru’s 1860 coloring book Nouveau Cours Élémentaire de Coloris et d’Acquerelle. [...]

]]> By: Imprint Development Site | Coloring for Grown-Ups http://rectoversoblog.com/2009/10/15/a-19th-century-course-of-instruction-in-crayons-and-watercolors/comment-page-1/#comment-612 Imprint Development Site | Coloring for Grown-Ups Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:34:23 +0000 http://rectoversoblog.com/?p=40#comment-612 [...] Coloring is an inherently tongue-in-cheek activity: after all, it’s premised on the genteel fiction that an untalented amateur filling in the colors actually completes an artwork. Rightly or not, we’ve come a long way from the civilized era of Couleru’s 1860 coloring book Nouveau Cours Élémentaire de Coloris et d’Acquerelle. [...] [...] Coloring is an inherently tongue-in-cheek activity: after all, it’s premised on the genteel fiction that an untalented amateur filling in the colors actually completes an artwork. Rightly or not, we’ve come a long way from the civilized era of Couleru’s 1860 coloring book Nouveau Cours Élémentaire de Coloris et d’Acquerelle. [...]

]]> By: Katherine Fortier http://rectoversoblog.com/2009/10/15/a-19th-century-course-of-instruction-in-crayons-and-watercolors/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Katherine Fortier Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:22:24 +0000 http://rectoversoblog.com/?p=40#comment-22 Such a delightful book and entry on it. Enjoyed your cheeky commentary. Just some more of my grammatical nitpicking: 1. In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the period should be outside the parentheses. 2. In the first sentence of the last paragraph, I wonder whether "such as this one" should be set off by commas . . . (?) Such a delightful book and entry on it. Enjoyed your cheeky commentary.

Just some more of my grammatical nitpicking:

1. In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the period should be outside the parentheses.

2. In the first sentence of the last paragraph, I wonder whether “such as this one” should be set off by commas . . . (?)

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