The art history of the pipe...

[Bastian Scherbeck]

Dear felllow Aspians,
as an art historian I am naturally also very interested in the aesthetic
aspects of pipes. Already for a few months now I have thought about writing
an essay - maybe a book - on the subject of pipe styles in history and
today, covering the development of styles over the last decades. Now I
realize that this is a long term project, which I will work on in my
freetime. Before I get this started, I'd like to know if anything similar to
that has already been written and worked on? If so and you have a clue, I'd
appreciate any advice where to find this text. If not, I really need the
help of this great community to get this started:

1) It would be very helpful if all of you who are able to do this, send me
jpgs of the pipes in your collection that you consider special (either they
are very classical in style, or they are very progressive, (they do not need
to be high-grades).

2) To all the great pipemakers on this board: would you mind sending me a
pic of the pipes or the one pipe you consider to be your best work until
now? I am pretty sure all the pipes you sell are technically seen on high
level - but remember we are talking styles here.

Please be so kind and only send small (in bytes that is) jpgs at first since
I only have a gmx account. If I need a better pic I'd email you again.

3) Can anybody of you give me adresses (e-mail, snail - mail) etc. of people
you would consider to be experts on one kind of pipe style (collectors of a
special style etc)? Do we even have some of those experts on this newsgroup?

Thanks to y'all, Bastian

[Stephen E. Williamson]

Bastian, that sounds like a book that I would love to own. One thing that
I have always wondered about is why freehand pipes in the 1970's had those
"worm tracks" carved into them. I can not see that they did anything to
improve the pipe, but I still have a couple pipes from the 70's that have
those wandering lines carved into them.

[Cheryl]

Stephen E. Williamson wrote:

>I have always wondered about is why freehand pipes in the 1970's had those
>"worm tracks" carved into them.

I call it "connect the dots", a quick way to disguise the sand pits. If
anyone ever did it because they just liked the way it looked, I'd be
surprised...

Cheryl

[Ian Rastall]

Hey Bastian. Ben Rappaport, of P&T Magazine is the guy to talk to. I
think he's their resident art historian.

Ian
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