Word: craftsmanship
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...equally profound influence on our contemporary design. The Bauhaus search for a machine-age aesthetic was revolutionary, a radical break with the past. The Cranbrook approach was evolutionary. Its artists and craftsmen created new designs not with dogmas or preconceived notions but by enthusiastic, almost playful experimentation with traditional craftsmanship and styles...
Adams' uncompromising craftsmanship helped pioneer the growing public recognition of photography as an art form. His method was to control rigorously every element of the picture: lighting, composition, focus. The image for him broke down into ten distinct "zones" of tonal quality, ranging from deepest black to pure white, so that every picture was a careful symmetry of light and dark. "The negative is the score," he said. "The print is the performance." By the mid-'60s, Adams had virtually ceased taking photographs for public consumption, concentrating instead on making prints of earlier works (the performance grew darker...
...could say a lot about Newlove's "technique" or "craftsmanship"--the way he puts poems together--for he is indeed a master builder....his work is often a demonstration model of how it should be done. But that isn't my primary interest. I would rather talk about corners; what they are, what you do in them and how you get out of them. Because this seems to me what Newlove's poetry is obsessed with, and for him it's a life-and-death obsession...
...Producer-Co-Writer Gelbart (M*A*S*H) are, like Caine, men who know better than to do the shoddy, but they are too busy trying to prove they are hip guys, cool on the trail of the rapidly aging New Morality, to emulate his try for modest craftsmanship. It is dismaying to see them sell off comedy's right to social criticism in exchange for the chance to make soft-core porn. Perhaps that accounts for the dispirited and guilty air of a film that makes even Rio look ugly and cannot work up so much...
Both lyrics were highly accomplished lies. The authors suffered more than they admitted and struggled harder than anyone knew. There was nothing cheap about their music or their words. Their vast output, examined decades later, reveals the kind of craftsmanship that rises from unflagging standards and tireless rewriting...