"While in some ways this is the most traditional of the exhibitions because there is a lot of drawing and a high level of craftsmanship, the subject matter is incredibly political," said Richard Klein, the Aldrich's exhibitions director.
And it is after all, the quality of the plays they wrought that still speaks of their craftsmanship, no matter the hands that held the quill.
Yet while Mr. Costello emerged during the late-1970's heyday of punk, he soon proved to be a pop scholar, delving into genres from pop to country to soul, savoring craftsmanship no matter how the music was packaged.
Craftsmanship: No matter how good the marketing program is, poor-quality work will destroy our base of referral business.
But it didn't change the movies the way "Bonnie & Clyde" (1967), "Chinatown" (1974) and "Taxi Driver" (1976) did, by applying creative craftsmanship to raw, adult subject matter; or like the '30s movies "It Happened One Night," "The Awful Truth," and "Bringing up Baby," which undermined the moralistic strictures of the Hays Office with the libertine sophistication of screwball comedy.
The bags here are expensive, but like leather the craftsmanship and material quality matter a great deal in whether you end up with an item that deteriorates steadily or comes into its own.
I don't know where it came from.... It's not a matter of craftsmanship; it wrote itself.
Brash, funny, and bursting with energy, a mixture of bad-ass subject matter and virtuoso craftsmanship, they show a young artist coming into exuberant possession of an original voice.
His finishing and craftsmanship might be impeccable, but the subject matter is well worn.
