Plastician

Quite apart from the question of finance and the basic difficulty of finding the very large sums for completely refacing buildings, the writer personally comes down solidly on the side of the "plastician" rather than the "face-lifter".

Today, I manipulate the sonic object as a sound plastician, and find myself confronted by the expression of a gesture which I cannot share except through the trace it leaves behind: the labelled object—that is, the sound recording.

Whatever in Nature is formed and shaped — be it the form of the plant persisting for a comparatively short time, or the eternally changing configuration of the animal body — carbon is everywhere the great plastician.

This interpretation has provided the basis for a descriptive, 'plastician' approach that draws on pragmatism and aesthetics by combining experimental botany, developmental biology and biophysics of morphogenesis (Pouteau, 2011; unpublished data).

Tho first plastician was not a scientist, but with the gront demands of modern civilization the plastician today is attempting to systematize and simplify his job

The general problem of analyzing stresses and strains during even simple forming operations is still beyond the range of the theoretical plastician.

If this kind of real plasticity were to be incorporated in an analysis, the "plastician" would age rapidly and become a "collapsian" eventually.

It may well be that in the future we shall be presented with a unified theory of mechanics which will bring together the apparently incompatible views of the plastician and the metallurgist.