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...HOLMES concert included works which were genuinely interesting as well as technical quodlibets and eclectic gruels which were only fitfully provocative and occasionally boring. This range of quality reflects the differences between craftsmen and technicians, experiment and gesture, ideas and platitudes, insights and effects. If these works were not distinguished by brilliant felicity or profundity, neither were they irrecoverably interred by grandiloquence or senescence. Those qualities are the uninspired composer's short cut to maturity...
...picturesque views of Mount Fuji and picaresque travel scenes. They were known as ukiyo-e, literally "pictures of the floating world," because to devout Buddhists everyday existence was a transient stage in man's journey to nirvana. Yet the lasting charm and skill with which the Japanese craftsmen imbued their images have influenced Western artists from Constable onward...
Some of the marvels fashioned by the craftsmen of those eras could be seen last week at Sotheby's in London, where 142 objects from the collection of the late Melvin Gutman went on view (see color). Gutman was a strange man. Son of a Wall Street stockbroker, he made a fortune in the stock market, and at the age of 29 conceived a passion for antique jewelry. He never married, and for the last 34 years of his life he never strayed far from his Manhattan apartment. When he died last year...
...regarded as craft rather than art. Even countries of origin are sometimes difficult to tell. From the mid-16th century onward, pattern books were published showing the latest styles in jewelry, and workshops serving kings and dukes in every country copied one another. In addition, rival princelings lured master craftsmen from each other's shops. It is often easy to see why. The Italian craftsman who intaglio-cut the crucified Christ in rock crystal on one classically simple 16th century pectoral cross incised each rib in the sinewy torso...
...tradition of artistic elegance passed on to succeeding generations of silversmiths, and continued even after the discovery of Peru's rich silver mines in 1533 made the metal available to Europe's relatively common people. A selective congeries of master craftsmen began to turn out standard household items: porringers, tankards, sherry beakers, stirrup cups, and such utilitarian items as knives and spoons. Their art was so prolific, in fact, that for years nobody paid much attention to the artistic quality of their products...