Choose the Right Word

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• These nouns all refer to makers or constnctors ofproducts at some level below that of artistic creation. An artisan falls midwav between the full-scale artist who creates single inimitable works and the mere worker who turns out identical, anonymous products: Italian artisans were brought to New York expressly tocarve the masonrv on the brounstone buildings of the1890's. Artisan was once much closer in meaning toartist. However, as witness the stained-glass windows of a medieval cathedral. These were created by anonymous artisans, but they are often great works of art nonetheless. (查看原文)

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• Artificer still can suggest its earliest meaning of a worker who possesses mechanical facility: the artificer in an infantry company who cares for and repairs its weapons. In other uses artificer had begun to sound fusty until James Jovce reintroduced the word in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tostand for the artist as creator and controller of art andlife. It has sometimes been used since in this highest sense. (查看原文)

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