What are the best books about building really, really, really great products?
Vasari's Lives of the Artists I'm quite serious. In the Renaissance, before art as craft got separated from art as ideas, artists were the ultimate craftsmen.
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Did you purchase volume 1 & 2 or the oxford edition?
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same here in Yoruba culture. the artist was the ultimate craftsman and was groomed from birth. that is why in many African cultures, the artist takes his/her art so seriously, it becomes a religion
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How do they know so early who will have an aptitude for it though?
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Importantly, Vasari includes women artists too, notably Properzia De' Rossi, in the years before guilds began a pattern of excluding women as did newly established art academies.
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I read Michelangelo extract from that Vasari collection, in Italian, bough from an old shop in Turin. It's an amazing chronicle of facts, mostly witnessed, written with the vivid talent of a historian, mentor, that was a great artist himself.
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I've read Vasari's Lives a long time ago and hugely enjoyed it. This is a really cool perspective on it. Thanks.
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I have similar thoughts about the relationship of art and science. It's sad and wrong that art and science are today seen as the opposite ends of a spectrum.
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More artisans less academics. Shift the prestige in society
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