Their practitioners no longer consider themselves "artisans" or "craftspeople" but artists.
Matchar researches the trend of the "homemade, from scratch, DIY, straight from the backyard, fresh baked, [and] artisan" by visiting practitioners of the New Domesticity across the country — Etsy entrepreneurs, food bloggers, knitting circles — and she provocatively explores what the movement says about the role of women in society today.
Mohism was an ancient Chinese philosophical movement founded in the fifth century BCE by the charismatic artisan Mòzi, or "Master Mo". Its practitioners advanced a consequentialist ethics, along with fascinating political, logical, and epistemological theories, that set the terms of philosophical argumentation and reflection in China for generations to come.
The Tokyo design retailer Cibone commissioned Jongerius to collaborate with skilled artisans in Nagoya, who are among the technique's last surviving practitioners.
Notwithstanding this prevalence and impact, it is often still performed using the renaissance model of individual artisans gathered in a workshop, under the guidance of an established practitioner.
Yet whether one is thinking of masters or modest artisans, the genre has its own logic, its own metaphysics, which tends to push its practitioners in a certain direction.
The first master artisan on my list was 88-year-old Francisca Tulais Urbina, one of the last practitioners of macre (MAH-kray), a pre-Hispanic wood lacquering technique that achieves a warmer, less glossy surface than Asian methods.
In recent years contemporary artisans like Ms. Bilgin of Janset Bilgin Design (Basement, 26A Serdar-I Ekrem Caddesi; jansetbilgin.com) have begun setting up shop alongside practitioners of traditional trades.
"Artisans Celebrate," group show.
Beşiktaş is the team of artisans".
