Word: craft
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Anyone who still believes in rigid divisions of importance between craft and fine art -- pottery and sculpture, for instance -- could do worse than visit the show by the California ceramist Ken Price, now on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Artists have been making sculpture out of baked clay since the dawn of time -- mud was God's medium for fashioning Adam -- and yet, in America, there lingers an irrational feeling that "real" sculpture ought to be made of steel, or bronze, or stone, or wood: anything but clay, in fact...
...materials that grew out of Chinese and Japanese ceramics. As Edward Lebow points out in his engaging catalog introduction to this show, Price, from his student days in Peter Voulkos' West Coast classes, "devoted much of his studio effort to clearing his throat and going ptooey on 'creative craft' and 'good design...
...familiar figure on Oscar night, both because this was his seventh Academy Award and because he is a towering gent with lank white hair and a serene face. That picture -- of a modern Merlin holding a gold totem -- is appropriate, for Muren, 45, is a wizard in the movie craft of computer graphics. In the bland ILM barracks in San Rafael, Calif., he and his merry alchemists wave a little wand over their Silicon Graphics VGX 340 terminals, and out comes the magic...
...Cobbler'sBoy Who Became an Admiral"; William Carey, "TheShoemaker who Translated the Bible into Bengaliand Hindostani"; Samuel Drew, "The MetaphysicalShoemaker." John Greenleaf Whittier began as ashoemaker's apprentice and honored the occupationwith his ode, "To Shoemakers," not one of his moredistinguished works. ("Ho! workers of the oldtime, styled/The Gentle Craft of Leather!/ Youngbrothers of the ancient guild,/ Stand forth oncemore together...
Henry Moore transforms nature onto paper in a unique way: he transfers the strength of sculptural space onto his sketches. He uses charcoal instead of the chisel to craft his malleable and almost tangible forms. One can almost feel the soft, waxy body of the forms that he sketches. Although the forms he sketches is abstract, the image appears very real...