Word: artisanal
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...real trouble with the picture, though, is that Truffaut might better have made another. The somewhat remote theme challenged his technical competence more than his heart; the finished film displays the artisan more than the artist. Truffaut is France's most consistently exciting moviemaker, but in his recent pictures he has seemed to be more interested in the movies than he is in life...
...Quito, Vaughn insisted that handicraft workers witness the ceremony when he signed a $3,000,000 loan for artisan credits...
...mingei came during the Edo period, a time of Japanese prosperity in isolation preceding Admiral Perry's naval foray, which in 1853 opened the door to the West. Folk art was austere, subdued, even restrained in its lack of showy flourish and its casual asymmetry. The anonymous artisan's ideal was shibui, which translates as "astringent" or, as a contemporary mingei potter defines it, "ordered poverty." Mingei is still created in Japan today; the Japan Folk Craft Society has 3,000 members and the government has named 31 craftsmen as living "Intangible Cultural Assets." And though critics deplore...
...wonders vaguely and passionately why he deserves the country clubs, the trips to Bermuda and the swimming pools. More sharply, he wonders how long it will last. Will the money stop? Will the unpredictable demons of alimony or Internal Revenue turn treacherous? The sickness unto death is not the artisan's fear that his arm will go lame; the suburbanite arm could not earn him the price of his quinine water. It is a less specific and less bearable fear: there are gods to be appeased, and the suburbanite has forgotten even their names...
Tamarind believes in the traditions of medieval guilds. Craftsmanship and cooperation between artist and artisan are the rule. Those who have left their studios to travel to the unartsy atmosphere of Tamarind have applauded the experience, and art buyers applaud the chance to get new art of all kinds at prices lower than single oils. After all, a score of lithos hardly floods the market...