Word: artisanal
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...seen Winter Light a few weeks before and was "very satisfied." The Seventh Seal is sometimes successful, sometimes not. Bergman even discards a major myth he had created. Concerning the endlessly quoted parable he wrote for Cahiers du Cinema (July, 1956), in which he compared himself to an anonymous artisan working on the cathedral at Chartres, he now tells Simon: "Very romantic, Forget...
...Eloquence"), and the sculptor's hallmark "Aristion made me." That, says Mastrokostas, director of antiquities for Attica, is "unchallengeable evidence" that the statue is Aristion's work, and he thinks that the statue of the youth may also be carved by him. Aristion was a master artisan, known from old writing to have lived on the Aegean island of Paros about the third quarter of the 6th century B.C. Until the new dig, it had been believed that the only remnants of his work were four statueless marble bases bearing his imprimatur. Now that Mastrokostas has been able...
...small towns and along the dusty roads of a rural America. Unlike contemporary Europeans and the Europe-trained professionals of the cities, they had no museums or art schools to learn from. Nevertheless, they worked out their own way of painting by applying the loving craftsmanship of a working artisan to the innocent eye of the artistically uneducated...
...only been in the last two centuries that the majority of people in civilized countries have claimed the privilege of being individuals. Formerly they were slave, peasant, laborer, even artisan, but not person. It is clear that this revolution, a triumph for justice in many ways . . . has also introduced new kinds of grief and misery, and so far on the broadest scale, it has not been altogether a success . . . For a historian of great interest, but for one aware of the suffering it is appalling. Hearts that get no real wage, souls that find no nourishment. Falsehoods, unlimited. Desire, unlimited...
...include memorabilia of baseball's greats. The U.S. avant-garde will be represented by the results of an art and technology program; twenty artists including Claes Oldenburg and Tony Smith have been working for the past year with industrial plants to see what closer collaboration between artist and artisan...