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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...
Soon, Kirlians claimed that photographing a portion of a leaf, for example, would produce the aura of the entire leaf on film. Some psychics claim that in time the aura of a missing limb might be discernible with Kirlian photography. Today the process is an integral part of paranormal exploration...
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...
...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...