Word: artisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of the subject. Several years later the Dutch master completed the figure, but none of the resulting prints turned out as well as the ones of the head alone. The paper has been very skillfully mended, where it was torn completely across the sheet, by some unknown artisan...
...temple in Jerusalem, the Mayas were developing their civilization in Central America. In the early Christian era the Mayan culture attained the peak of its splendor. The priests invented a form of writing; the mathematicians and astronomers worked out a calendar; the architects built great cities and temples; the artisan modeled in stucco, wove textiles, carved and painted with rare skill...
...finally to the division into capitalistic and wage-earning classes. A few of the poor free men being more ingenious than the rest, turned then talents to the manufacture of goods offered first for barter and later for sale. Here we have the beginning of the artisan class. At a later date the merchant class sprang up to facilitate the process of exchange...
...only that touch of originality which makes for interest. They are surprisingly readable, and they are read. Perhaps the artist has always overtaxed himself, and has thus fallen short of his capabilities: perhaps the tremendous gush with which he has flooded the presses is but the indication of the artisan, Wells...
Twenty years ago at Waterloo. Iowa, Dr. Joseph Ambrose Jerger ingeniously mended Peter Grimes's broken right leg with metal plates. It was Dr. Jerger's first case. So, like a medieval artisan, he proudly signed each plate with his initials...