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Mon, 5 Dec 1994 10:08:31 EST |
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Hi Bayla:
With regard to library catalogs discouraging physical
visits: first, I have no real expertise in this; second, the
NY Botanical Garden's on-line library catalog has a
wonderful "browse" approach, in that it will show you the
stuff *next* to the stuff your looking for. Kind of a
virtual stack.
I only mention this because one of the great pleasures of a
musuem visit is looking at things that you didn't expect to
see or be interested in. In my recent visit to the Natural
History Museum in NY, I made a beeline for the fossil mammal
exhibit; after an hour or so there, I happened to wander
through a wonderful exhibit on Genghis Khan and the Mongols
(I don't think that I saw the word "horde" in the whole
exhibit." But I did see a yurt, very nice one at that).
On line wandering is one of the great pleasures of the
Internet as well, which is why Mosaic is so much fun (even
if it is like wandering through a tar pit in terms of
speed). Won't it be wonderful when on-line visits to museum
collections and images will allow you to connect instantly
to other museums collections, so you can see all of Piero
Della Francesca's digitized images at one go.
As far as that goes, what about digital enhancement of
images. I wouldn't mind a cyber visit to those old wrecks of
frescoes at Arezzo or somewhere cleaned up with digital
enhancement technology. Given the controversy over real
re-touching and the like, maybe this is the way to go.
On and on.
Best Regards
Eric
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