Word: craftsmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were treading water, that they were not uncovering any fresh musical resources, that they were not making any further additions to the existing stock of their achievement. Instead, that album represented a consolidation, a wrapping up of all the Beatles' loose ends in a last burst of splendid careful craftsmanship...
...Things are still well made," insists Keith Sonnier, "but the artists are sneakier about it." Sometimes indeed they are so sneaky that their craftsmanship eludes the viewer altogether. Bruce Nauman, 26, at Manhattan's Leo Castelli Gallery last February, showed off crude fiber glass forms, limp latex-and-cloth sculptures, and a stuttering neon sign that proclaimed "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths." Minimalist Morris blossomed forth at a Castelli spring show with billowing grey strips of industrial felt...
...scenes . . . we suggest you see Helga first!!!") rather than the sterling quality of the plot, a simplistic, sun-filled narrative of wedded bliss. The highlight of Helga is the birth of a baby, shot straight on in gaseous color. The scene, filmed at a university clinic, has all the craftsmanship of an Army training short, but it does have an undeniable effect on audiences. "The reaction everywhere is the same," confides a publicist for the film. "As soon as the head of the baby appears from a wave of blood, 90% of the spectators turn their heads away. And when...
...oneself totally from one character to another-a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built -is a superhuman task at any time." What makes the playwright's task more difficult today is the death of certain theatrical conventions: "The lukewarm virtues of good craftsmanship, sound construction, effective curtains, crisp dialogue have all been thoroughly debunked...
...poet as he sees himself; the reader sees something different. Picture a seagull unhappy, hungry for a clam. He flies in perfect beauty, a perfect grace visible to all eyes but his own. John Berryman, however difficult his own muddle may be, exhibits to us a true grace of craftsmanship and earnestness...