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...connections and the frame intrinsic to that subject. "Niagara Falls", for example, is seen through a glass window and balcony that enclose the foreground. A row of skyscrapers provide the backdrop. Looking closer, one perceives the interconnections between the forms in front of the falls--the in bric-a-brac on the window sill--and those behind, the buildings on the sill of the river...
Even so, Wilder claimed no credit for invention. In the preface to an edition of three of his plays, he says, "I am not an innovator but a rediscoverer of forgotten goods and I hope a remover of obtrusive bric-a-brac." In Elizabethan times, after all, Shakespeare's plays were performed with few trappings. One need only read the Prologue to Henry V. which is an eloquent apologia for this manner of staging...
...sent out invitations to her 500 nearest and dearest friends, opened up part of her five-story, 16-room Manhattan townhouse and held a Garbage a la Rummage (pronounced Gahrbage a la Koomahge) sale. Some 3,000 nearest and dearest attended her sale, snapped up varied costly tric-a-brac-all for around...
Money was something Honoré de Balzac knew about intimately because his mirror manias were spending and collecting. A small man with comically short legs, he spent fortunes on clothes, bought gloves by the dozen and fancied bejeweled canes. Another passion was furniture, rugs and bric-a-brac. All his tastes were expensive and execrable...
...Paulo would respect a wish expressed by Picasso and donate the artist's valuable personal collection of great painters to the Louvre. Picasso jokingly referred to the collection, which includes 800 to 1,000 works by Corot, Courbet, Cézanne, Braque, Matisse and others, as "bric-a-brac," but Prime Minister Pierre Messmer quickly accepted the priceless gift on behalf of France...