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...show was the idea of Phillip Lewis, the museum's curator of primitive art, and the 31 pieces came from some 500,000 objects in the museum's collection. "Primitive art in general tends to be rather static," says Lewis. "But when these craftsmen were given the impetus of a new people, they were released from the static view of their own society. There is no question that the colonists had an impact upon their art." Lewis believes that some of the sculptures may have been made to be sold to the whites, but if the show proves...
...craftsmen were rarely violent and seldom vicious: for all their burdens, they tended to look upon their foreign masters with both humor and indulgence. It was the strange habits of the white men that intrigued them. Hats and shoes were something new, so one Madagascan artist sculpted a colonial wearing nothing else. In the Congo, an anonymous sculptor did a thick-lipped white sailor guzzling a mug of beer. The sailor wears a cap, a striped shirt, and seems properly in uniform-except that he is naked from the waist down...
...originally a palace built in the 1470s for the retinue of Mohammed the Conqueror. As the empire grew, so did the retinue, until under Suleiman, it numbered more than 5,000. Attached to the imperial household, working in tiny studios scattered through the rambling palace grounds, were artisans and craftsmen whose job was to transform the raw plunder of war into objects that enhanced the glory of the sultan. The artisans also instructed the sultans' sons, for each young prince had to have at least one skill not connected with the throne. Suleiman was an expert jeweler; Abdul Hamid...
...Institute of Heraldry, which has only two trained sculptors on its staff. Says James Risk of the American Numismatic Society in Manhattan: "There is a tendency in U.S. medals to go too much for symbolism, regardless of good design." Adds his colleague Henry Grunthal: "The medals are designed by craftsmen, not artists, and the craftsmen are told exactly what to do. The fantasy of the artist is suffocated by regulation...
...such programs will train only one-tenth of the craftsmen needed for the '60s. The Government supervised widespread apprentice programs right after World War II, but enrollment has dwindled from...