Word: cataloger
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According to the accompanying exhibit catalog, meticulously written by Sarah Kianovsky, the point of the exhibit is to promote qualitative thinking, comparing the artists' styles and the movements in which they flourished. All of the works were done between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and at first glance, the show seems like a grab-bag from post-Impressionist schools. But after time and questioning ("Why these works?") a cohesiveness develops based on similarities and differences...
HOLLIS Plus is of the latter variety. Our old reliable electronic card catalog has been beefed up over the past few months. Notably, the improvements have occurred not by adding more local functionality but rather by addition of gateways to outside databases. In short, HOLLIS is metamorphosing from a card catalog to a comprehensive electronic research tool...
Perhaps the most useful feature of HOLLIS Plus is the inclusion of more research databases into the menu system. Taking advantage of gopher technology to its fullest, Harvard's card catalog now includes most of the obscure databases that were previously unavailable from standard HOLLIS terminals...
...catalog, Loyrette and Tinterow quote the art critic Jules Castagnary, who wrote in 1867 that the "modern spectacle" sought by the New Painters wasn't a matter of theory, ideology or history but of direct response to the world and its contents. "What need is there to go back through history ... to examine the registers of the imagination?" Castagnary wrote that "beauty is in front of the eyes, not inside the brain; in the present, not in the past ... The universe we have here, before us, is the very one that painting ought to translate...
...catalog of Assad's atrocities goes back far, highlighted by the 1982 massacre of 20,000 of his own people in the rebellious town of Hama. But put that aside. Put aside the fact that Damascus is headquarters for a dozen terrorist groups, principal Arab supporter of Iran, controller of Lebanon's Hizballah terrorists (who last month launched rockets into Israel in support of the bus bombing that killed 23 people...