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...curator, Michel Laclotte, soon to retire as president and director of the Louvre. Like some benign capo, he has called in all his markers at once in a virtuoso display of accumulated borrowing power. His contributing art historians, from Alessandro Ballarin to Konrad Oberhuber, provide clear and scholarly catalog essays; no serious French catalog would dream of using the jargon so popular now in American academe...
...paradise derived from Latin literature, with its shepherds, gallants and nymphs. The picture that starts this long train is Titian's Concert Champetre, circa 1509, which is one of the most hermetic and disputed images in all Western art. It gets about 27 columns of dense text in the catalog, chewing over its literary sources, the presence (or not) of Giorgione's hand in it, its presumed Neoplatonic content, its allegorical meanings...
...could select any item from an encyclopedic menu of offerings and have it routed directly to your television set or computer screen. A movie? Airline listings? Tomorrow's newspaper or yesterday's episode of Northern Exposure? How about a new magazine or book? A stroll through the L.L. Bean catalog? A teleconference with your boss? A video phone call with your lover? Just punch up what you want, and it appears just when you want...
...Warsh's "get personal" approach to economic journalism does not resort simply to visiting the bedrooms of prominent theorists. The book includes a catalog of snapshots from the lives of the last decade's Nobel Prize winners...
Locating the right materials has become easier too. The AIA now publishes an Environmental Resource Guide. And architect Paul Bierman-Lytle, a specialist in building environmentally sensitive homes, has put together an alternative building-products catalog that lists more than 2,600 materials and technologies. More recently he helped establish an eco-mall for environmental construction materials. First begun in 1981 as a mail-order business, Environmental Construction Outfitters now has a 5,000-sq.-ft. loft in New York City that showcases everything from natural carpeting and cork flooring to solar energy, cotton insulation and environmental paints. The emporium...