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No Victorian parlor was complete without its whatnot crammed with porcelain curios and bric-a-brac. Potters of that day found an endless market for glossy, sentimental figures of puppies, kittens, grazing sheep and cows (sometimes used as milk pitchers). Today the ceramic gimcrack is coming back, this time destined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ceramics: Funky Figurines | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

One of the earliest pioneers was a former lute player, Danish-born Thomas Wilfred. In 1921 in New York, he built a kind of visual Wurlitzer, which he called the Clavilux. By moving sliding keys, he activated a battery of projectors behind a translucent screen. He became so skillful that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techniques: Luminal Music | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

Inside the basement's cardboard coffins lies an incredible variety of artistic curios. Ranging from flamboyant pictorial designs to quiet calligraphy, most jackets in the Harvard and Kleist collections are from books of fiction, where jackets are commercially crucial. The jacket-designer's task is to capture in one visual...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Librarian Immersed in 18th Year As Harvard Book-Jacket Curator | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

Buddha died only 30 miles from Katmandu. So nearly all of Nepal's art is religious in subject matter, representing a jumbled pantheon of gods drawn from Hindu and Buddhist myths. Some of the art Professor Kramrisch dug out of muddy ditches; some she found in temples. Next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Way to Nirvana | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

In the small, intricate world of extreme feminine sensibility, a girl's refusal to have a dressy wedding can open on an abyss of revolt; the look of a new apartment can call for the fanciest flight of prose. Occasionally Miss Calisher seems to hover protectively over her characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Richer than Treacle | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

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