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Word: ceramicists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1962-1962
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...architecture; but the art of glazing had slipped to the point that the architects had difficulty in finding an artisan who could make the green, blue-grey and brown bricks needed for the ceiling. Finally they located one Oosta Yah-Yah. who had trained under a U.S. ceramicist, and he set to work making the bricks. Among the masons was a group of remarkable boys, 12 to 14 years old. Working in teams of three, the teen-aged bricklayers laid the 4-in.-thick, lozenge-shaped glazed brick literally on thin air, forming arches between the steel ribs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fatemeh's Fancy | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

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