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facture

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fac·ture  (fkchr)
n.
The manner in which something, especially a work of art, is made: "the gummy surfaces, spectral smudges and woozy contours that . . . appear in counterpoint to the clear, bright facture that had heretofore been [the artist's] hallmark" (Robert Shorr).

[French, from Latin factra, a working or making; see feature.]


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So Mudzunga's drums made their way to New York, taking the old mythologies in encoded form, in the very fabric and facture of his objects.
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