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...PETER PHILLIPS, 25, is an industrious craftsman who rejects pop art's emphasis on the painted object, regards his own work as "a bit traditional. Subject matter is not the most important thing," he says. "Like building a computer, you don't want anything that's not supposed to be there." Son of a Birmingham carpenter, Phillips fell into art school because he was too "cowardly" to work at a trade. At the Royal College of Art, he rebelled against painting "flowers and nude ladies" and turned out "huge paintings that looked a bit like 100th-rate...
Unlike some pop artists, Davis was a meticulous craftsman who worked the hard way with paint out of the tube and small brushes. The jazz improvisations in his pictures are in the mood, never in the planning and execution. He took a razzle-dazzle man-made world of cities, honky-tonks and brightly packaged products, a confection of vulgarities, and out of their impermanence made something arrestingly permanent...
ROBERT BÜCKER-Feigen-Herbert, 24 East 81st. Hard-edged icons by a 28-year-old New Yorker: polyptychs of oil on wood are marked with only an occasional economical line to suggest Romanesque pillars and arches. Bücker is delicate, antique, and trim enough a craftsman to be a builder of clavichords, also on view. Through...
John O'Hara has for so long been the acknowledged master craftsman of U.S. short story writers that whatever new peaks of performance he hits are unlikely to stir much surprise. This is a pity because in recent years, as his novels get worse and worse, his stories have been getting better and better. In an astonishing output-four volumes since 1960-of brief encounters and broader recollections, his writing has moved way beyond the burled walnut finish and the chromium-plated dialogue that have made him famous...
...that of scandalizing Catholics or boring those outside the Catholic faith. Pope Kiril is no bore and is perhaps the first fictional pontiff to pass the severe test the subject imposes on the fallibility of novelists.*West's novel can be read as exciting fiction by a notable craftsman (The Devil's Advocate) and for the documentary expertise West acquired as Vatican correspondent for the London Daily Mail, not to speak of his years as a postulant of the Christian Brothers teaching order in his native Australia...