Word: tamarind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late afternoon in Saigon when Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 49, set out for an important session of South Viet Nam's Constituent Assembly. His green, 1955 Hillman was parked under a tall tamarind tree, and he backed it off the sidewalk onto the street. "I heard a dragging noise when I first started to back up," he recalled later, "and I knew right then it was probably a mine or plastique." The doctor's diagnosis was correct. An explosion ripped a two-foot hole through the front seat. Dan escaped with light shrapnel wounds in his legs...
...Catholic youth was led by his Buddhist captors through Saigon's wide, tamarind shaded streets, past truckloads of police who did nothing to save him, toward the central market. There, a Buddhist mob howled and rushed the prisoner. A ten-year-old boy plunged a dagger into his thigh: the victim tried to flee but was stopped beore he went 20 steps. A bicycle was thrown on top of him, and the mob jumped up and down on it. Finally, the Catholic struggled up, dragging a broken leg behind him, but was cut down again and killed by flailing...
...Tamarind does more than make lithos: it makes lithographers. Seventeen artisans, usually on leave from college graphic-arts departments, have received $1,200 grants for three-month working sojourns. Tamarind conducts a research lab where artisans experiment with new lithographic methods...
...Score Editions. Each edition, or "strike," of Tamarind lithos is limited to 20 for the artist to sell and nine un numbered prints for the workshop. Six of the nine are sold to collectors for the benefit of Tamarind; three are kept for historical, teaching and loan purposes. The artist, with his artisan, supervises each reproduction. Each of the artist's prints bears, in his own handwriting, the notation 1/20, 2/20, etc. After the scheduled number is completed, the stone is "regrained" (erased), and a cancellation proof is made to certify the end of the edition...
...Tamarind believes in the traditions of medieval guilds. Craftsmanship and cooperation between artist and artisan are the rule. Those who have left their studios to travel to the unartsy atmosphere of Tamarind have applauded the experience, and art buyers applaud the chance to get new art of all kinds at prices lower than single oils. After all, a score of lithos hardly floods the market...