Iconic clothing has been secularized.... A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as th...e blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering... nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »