Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artist's conception of the Dana Building that Dr. Emil Frei III has on his office wall closely resembles the actual building, which you can see out the window near the Children's Hospital, between Francis and Binney Streets in Boston. Frei is director of the Sidney Farber Center for the study of cancer, which will take up the new and angular black building that is a grim but gleaming testament to the gravity of the disease it was built...
...interchangeability of parts. Watching clumsy workmen fumble the parts of the cotton gin, which he invented, Whitney realized that he had to put his own skill into every untaught hand, and to do this he had "to substitute correct and effective operations of machinery for that skill of the artist which is acquired only by long practice and experience." In that single principle, Whitney created the largest single segment of industrial civilization-the semiskilled worker...
...Would Be King) than in his novels (for instance, Captains Courageous)? Because, says Wilson, he could not conceal his true, tragic nature in the longer run. Mason concedes that Kipling's training and temperament put him into an almost impossible position as a writer: he was "an artist who must on no account betray his emotions." But he argues that Kipling struggled bravely and imaginatively to deliver himself whole to his reader, and that in fact his later, lesser-known stories- such parables in anguish as The Gardener and Mary Postgate-were his masterpieces...
...contrast, the "kites" are economical; even the strings they hang from act as drawing. They are perfectly suited to Smith's restrained temperament as an artist; he is always at pains to avoid the bribes of visual overstatement...
...American background. Smith remains a very English artist. No matter what the style, English art has never felt like American, and one of the differences has to do with sociability. Smith's work is quite conversational in its ease of style. Like Caro's or Hockney's, it is permeated with a casual, offhand rightness about material, color and meetings of shape, but it is not polemical. No proposition about the future of art is being shoved in one's face. Hence its unlikeness to New York painting in the '60s, to that clamor...