Word: craftsmen
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...their different ways ardent modernists, but in its first years the school was caught in a contradiction: a romance with individual craftsmanship at odds with the modernist ideal of mass production. Even the name Bauhaus (House for Building) carried echoes of Bauhütten, the shared lodgings of the medieval craftsmen who built the great cathedrals. As for the painters connected to the Bauhaus, whatever systems and principles Klee and Kandinsky believed their art was expressing, no one looking at anything they did--Klee's phantasmagorias, Kandinsky's swimming abstractions--would think the words factory produced...
...After a stroll along the promenade, pick an alley heading away from the water and immerse yourself in a warren of ancient caravansaries, markets and wooden balconies under which craftsmen still carve the intricate doors that are Zanzibar's signature decorative form. In the old slave market, you'll find traces of the past as well as of the surprising religious tolerance that slavery was shown: captives were flogged and paraded in the shadow of mosques, cathedrals and Hindu and Buddhist temples...
...that, unlike other criminals, counterfeiters are craftsmen. Is there a part of you that admires the work that they do? Well, sure. I've seen one of Art's bills. It's just astonishing how similar it is to the genuine article. I tend to be fascinated by any master criminal, anyone who's such a diabolical genius that they take a crime beyond the financial gain...
...Program’s studio as a non-resident tutor in Quincy—after he spends the summer at what Tischfield calls “the Harvard of ceramics” in Jingdezhen, China. He has received a fellowship to study in Jingdezhen, a village of 325,000 craftsmen and artists built on the site of a 2000-year-old porcelain-producing factory famous for its tradition of flawless pottery. “Ceramics is something I’m always going to do,” Tischfield says. “I’m definitely going...
Some acquaintances say that Soetoro-Ng has the independent spirit of her mother, Stanley Ann, who took young Maya along when she went to Indonesia and Africa to pursue her master's and doctoral degrees studying and helping village craftsmen (Barack was left behind to be raised by Madelyn Dunham and her late husband Stanley in the 10th story Beretania duplex in the Makiki area of Honolulu). Nevertheless, cautioned by her brother's campaign advisers, Soetoro-Ng always watches her words, knowing how easily the words of a relative can reflect in unintended ways on the candidate...