Word: lorrain
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...ingenious visual trick, an instantaneous conversion of nature to art by the mere act of framing the scene. Europe in the 18th century saw a vogue among painters and travelers for the Claude glass, an optical device that framed views in the manner of landscape painter Claude Lorrain and lent them something like his subdued tones. The Mediatheque functions in a similar way, but with even simpler means, aestheticizing a bit of nature simply by pointing us toward it just so. In a room where people will examine art on computer screens, reality becomes one more screen. As Scofidio likes...