Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles, a leaf is cut in half, then photographed by a special process. The picture miraculously shows the "aura" or outline of the whole leaf...
Tapestry was to northern Europe what fresco was to Italy, or the refulgent gold-leaf screens of the Momoyama period were to the dark castle interiors of 16th century Japan: the main form of large-scale decoration. Moreover, it had two advantages that fresco did not possess: a duke could change his hangings, and they warmed his drafty abode in winter. And yet the appetite for tapestries went beyond all questions of use and ornament. They were collected with manic extravagance. As the Cluny Museum's chief curator Francis Salet points out in his catalogue introduction, Philip the Good...
...Professor Welch comments, seventeenth century Persian art relied more for its effect on the brilliance of its surface than on the soundness and originality of its conception. Just as the magnificence of Shah Abbas's public buildings masked the growing corruption of the society they glorified, the gold leaf and arabesques of Isfahan's art too often hid hackneyed ideas and careless workmanship. Isfahan fades like a mirage when you try to touch it. Yet, seen from the right distance, the dreamlike perfection of the surface almost makes up for the emptiness behind...
...Leaf. Part of Shevardnadze's campaign is to expose shocking examples of Georgian gracious living like the one recently revealed by the local party newspaper, Zarya Vostoka. It reported that 4,000 families, including those of many party officials, had simply dropped out of the Communist economic system and were living by private enterprise-on choice acreage along Georgia's Black Sea coast. The most lurid revelation was saved for the grave pages of Pravda itself. The party newspaper reported that with "party connivance" scores of "marble dachas" had sprouted "like mushrooms" all over Georgia, while shortages persisted...
...Georgians this time have obviously gone too far. But despite the purge, there is no evidence that they intend to turn over a new leaf. Party Boss Shevardnadze has felt it necessary to warn offenders: "No one will have indulgence regardless of rank, age or former merit...