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...conquering Turks immediately converted the "Church of Holy Wisdom" into a Mosque. Because the Islamic religion prohibits the depicting the the human figure in places of worship, the Turks covered over the Christian mosaic scenes with plaster and paint...
Supported by the Institute, Whittemore and his workers began the painstaking task of removing the paint and plaster from the mosaics without injuring the delicate surface of the stones. Scaffolds 100 feet high, equipped with electric are lights and small chemical laboratories, were built to reach the highest pictures...
...four portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot-high plaster bust of Kim, on the right by a bust of Stalin...
...galvanized iron-sheeted dining hall, they ate Tandon's strict orthodox menu: rice, wheat pancakes, lentils, sweets, vegetables, buttermilk. Shuffling around the ten-stall "village uplift" exhibition they gaped at tractors, bulldozers and an improved oil seed crusher. They gasped at a lecture on artificial insemination (illustrated with plaster models) and were dazzled by shimmering neon advertisements. They saw posters on the evils of drink; noted the stall which sold cottage-made, unrefined palm juice sugar, and listened when Tandon declared that "Cow protection is part of Indian culture and as such . . . the cow should be afforded full protection...
Maurice Lavanoux, the good grey secretary of Manhattan's Liturgical Arts Society, gave strong support to that idea. In the U.S., he declared, church-goods houses "have debased the taste of generations of worshipers" by filling churches with mass-produced, painted-plaster "catalogue Virgins." Most parishes, Lavanoux added, "accept this practice because they think it is the normal thing, but the capacity of the average parishioner for accepting good art has been greatly underestimated . . . We need the contemporary artist to help us end the scandal of the trash that is in our churches...