Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...medium, this clever writer makes such homely objects as a bucket and a rope scamper and talk worldly wisdom in a naive accent. And if you would find the love affairs of "The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock" amusing and enlightening you will proclaim "Fables" an important piece of workmanship. There is no doubt that this little book is very much the thing for the right people...
...women, humor, sadness and struggle in this picture. It misses being a great picture only because its story is not a big enough framework for its implications and because the actors have their own way too much. You feel that it would be better if its workmanship were not so finicky. Half of it is silent and half in dialog. The silent part is the most effective. Best shot: Miss Wood teaching her family to sing Christmas carols...
Daniel Berkeley Updike: A master printer, whose art in workmanship makes reading a greater pleasure...
...decorative arts, too often neglected, the material is distinguished. Both the ceramics and the textiles of Raoul Dufy deserve special notice. The ingenious miniature reproductions in pottery of the Moorish Gardens at Granada, and the lively designs of his fabrics, attest to the versatility of this talented artist. Brilliant workmanship marks a great variety of objects on display, such as cigarette cases, book-covers, silver, jewelry and glassware...
...their brushes, as though they had been valets' whiskbrooms, upon the handsome exteriors of fashionable people in Manhattan and elsewhere. Knoedler's Gallery is largely responsible for the change. Since the time when its senior partner began to import the work of foreign celebrities, native workmanship became less socially desirable. U. S. persons, having arrived at the pinnacle of pretension which permits them to order portraits, would prefer to have themselves painted by a portrayer of dukes or princes. Hence U. S. portraitists, able though they may be, are not so avidly patronized that their prices approach those...