Word: craftsmen
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...grape harvest in France and California will be more bountiful and cheaper than its predecessors. A number of food chains have vowed not to raise prices through the end of the year. The out-of-sight costs of materials and labor have had some hidden benefits. Millions have become craftsmen; the arcana of carpentry, plumbing and auto repair have been revealed to those who once thought they possessed ten thumbs. In a variety of flea markets, church bazaars and garage sales, secondhand furniture and utensils trade hands and are given a new life...
...Art/Asia, 8 Story St., "Antique Tansu Chests and Scrolls." A special exhibition and sale, given in conjunction with the Craftsmen's Guild of Tokyo. Unique show, now through...
When Liberman sent paintings out to be fabricated by craftsmen or sign painters in the early '50s, other artists frowned on that as "mechanical." But in the next decade, when preplanned works made to the artist's order became an "issue," Liberman, who by then had gone back, or on, to a splashier style, was criticized for being too obsessed with the handmade object. He had exploited optical dazzle in works like After-image (1955) long before Op art was ever heard of. His use of chance and planned matrices foreshadowed the later interest in serial and process...
...speak Indian tongues in the markets of LaPaz are learning Spanish and the metric system. The Mexican workers who come to Mexico City to pray to an icon of the Virgin of Guadalupe will soon take the eucharist and mouth their pleas to a transubstantiated God. The tiny craftsmen of Quito, Ecuador, who sell shoes, hats and cabinets in front rooms of their houses will soon be replaced by mass-producing factories...
...Busch-Reisinger, Harvard's Germanic museum, will be showing the work of Josef and Anni Albers through mid-August. The Albers have exceptionally fine modern craftsmen who contributed vastly to the Bauhaus's enduring reputation as the bastion of contemporary design. Josef is represented in the Busch's exhibit by paintings, lithografs, wallpaper and photographs. Anni's work includes weaving samples and textile design paintings...