Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable thing that you have done in publishing some of the rare, fine Byzantine iconography in your April 13 issue, together with your story on the expedition to the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine. No detraction of appreciation is intended of your fine color plates by pointing out that your descriptions were purely secular...
...must congratulate you on the color reproductions of the Sinai mosaic and the icons, but it was most irritating to me to see the name of my distinguished colleague, Professor George Forsyth, appear alongside the photo of the monastery as if he were a photographer. The scholarly enterprise is conducted jointly by Professor Forsyth and myself. Our responsibilities are so divided that Professor Forsyth, being an architectural historian, is in charge of the field work, while I am responsible for the publication of the scholarly results...
...last week, clutching a color insert torn from the current issue of Asahi Science Magazine (circ. 90,000), subscribers streamed into Canon Camera Co. service stations in five Japanese cities. One side of the insert bore color pictures of Niagara Falls and London's Big Ben clock tower, the other a solid block of brown ink. As the subscribers listened spellbound, the insert, placed face up in a table-top device called a Synchroreader, reproduced the awesome thunder of Niagara Falls, the clangorous toll...
...didn't have to design it. So I went on to similar things like the targets-things the mind already knows. That gave me room to work on other levels. For instance, I've always thought of a painting as a surface; painting it in one color made this very clear. Then I decided that looking at a painting should not require a special kind of focus like going to church. A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator...
...Guides to the major museums are easily come by, and visitors to Paris are not likely to miss the Louvre. But Europe also has great treasures still in private or semiprivate collections, secluded abbeys, obscure churches and castles that well repay the discriminating wanderer. TIME herewith begins a new color series of such Hidden Masterpieces...