Word: workmanship
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Back of the whole set-up was a belief that the more plain workmanship with canvas, wood, stone, metals, textiles, clay and color goes on in a country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of national art: "You don't often find mountains where there is no plateau." Hostile critics have rejoined that plateaus and genuine art movements alike are beyond the power of governments to create. But even such critics admit that the Federal Art Project has gone about...
...fourth-rate composers, it is even richer. Because the public needs time to appreciate first-rate music and because even competent listeners cannot always, at first hearing, tell a crackpot musician from a genius, the work of contemporary highbrow composers is unpopular. The public prefers familiar music of guaranteed workmanship...
...gems were first made as talismans, then as cures, then for seals, and at length for pure enjoyment, and they disclose a skill in workmanship and a knowledge of animal forms that is astounding. Many are cut on a curved surface so that the minute figures, such as the youth riding a dolphin, appear on the inside of a hollow no bigger than a walnut shell. They were signed by their artists, whose names were classed by the Greek writers with those of the great sculptors...
Disregarding literary content, the volumes are chosen solely on the basis of "sound design and sound workmanship in all respects" from books published in the United States and Canada...
...songs, romance struggling to be serious, and muscular chorus girls realizing that they're caricatures and making the most of it. The inevitable thrust at Yale is unusually satisfying, and some of the extraordinary political situations concocted by the authors yield flows of amusing cracks. An abundance of competent workmanship has gone into this show, "So Proudly We Hail," but it is lacking in the verve that would make it stand out in the history of Pudding theatricals...