Word: artisanal
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...lithography studio like Tamarind does resemble an industrial plant-it is full of polished stones, pots of ink, presses, reams of handmade paper. The artist's task, in the simplest form of lithography, is to draw his work on flat stone with a greasy crayon. A printer-artisan wets the stone with water, which the grease rejects, and then rolls on ink, which the grease accepts. When the artisan presses paper to the stone, the ink prints the work of art, and the process can be repeated as many times as the artist requires...
...been to find an artisan-printer fully qualified to work with an artist. In 1958, a spunky Chicago woman named June Wayne had to travel to Paris to find an artisan with whom to illustrate a book of John Donne's poetry. She griped to the Ford Foundation, which has since mollified her with $565,000 worth of grants to found Tamarind for a limited period of time, and made her its director...
...edition, or "strike," of Tamarind lithos is limited to 20 for the artist to sell and nine un numbered prints for the workshop. Six of the nine are sold to collectors for the benefit of Tamarind; three are kept for historical, teaching and loan purposes. The artist, with his artisan, supervises each reproduction. Each of the artist's prints bears, in his own handwriting, the notation 1/20, 2/20, etc. After the scheduled number is completed, the stone is "regrained" (erased), and a cancellation proof is made to certify the end of the edition...
Such technological changes worry many economists and sociologists. They fear that the unskilled worker, the artisan and the office worker will more and more find their jobs disappearing or changing radically. They see extra leisure for workers as at least a partial answer to the problem, but then they worry about how people will be able to use that extra leisure creatively. Almost everyone agrees that the U.S. is entering what University of California President Clark Kerr calls "the age of the knowledge industry," when men and women of all ages will have to be continuously educated through their lifetimes...
...fashionable lakesides. Last May Tito's regime decided to wipe them out. Taxes on private business were raised sevenfold. A private tailor with one helper paid the same amount of tax as a Belgrade tailors' Communist cooperative with seven employees. It was too much for any artisan. By the end of 1962, nearly 10,000 private craftsmen closed up shop, 3,000 in Croatia alone...