Word: craftsmanship
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...lackluster group of entries dominated by American shows (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Northern Exposure). Watching an episode of Cheers with a greatly amused band of international viewers, moreover, was a reminder that despite its grinding familiarity, the American sitcom at its best has achieved a level of craftsmanship unmatched anywhere in the world...
However miniatures this tragedy may be, Morrison's light hand deftly meshes myth and history and poetry. Her orchestration and craftsmanship create a "brilliant spot of blood...
...glazes that, through firing, were bonded to it. But this was California, the territory of outlaw artificial color, metal flake, Duco gloss, candy stripes, epoxy bases. Price didn't go for the mass and roughness of Voulkos' work; he wanted a more concise style of object, perverse in its craftsmanship and highly mannered...
...title? One can't claim too much for his cups, which is a relief in a culture that tends to claim far too much for its paintings, but the whole show in Minneapolis is infused with an educated sense of style that consorts finely with the craftsmanship and laconic wit. Price's sensibility does not so much come out of Pop as emerge, on its own terms, from the same ground, becoming both demotic and superrefined. As the Faberge of Funk, he has no rivals...
...your work as though you had a thousand years to live," said Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker religious sect, "and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow." It is no accident that Ken Burns picked the Shakers, who believed that God dwelt in the craftsmanship of their everyday work, as the subject for one of his films. Each of his works seems the labor of a lifetime: a painstaking assemblage of archival photographs, period documents, interviews and music, welded together by narration that can soar to near religious inspiration...