"Tom is not the anonymous lost soul he thinks he is. He was born in a bland modern suburb, raised with no traditions and no identity amongst the sameness of a mass-produced society, entered adulthood amidst a series of amusing, but meaningless encounters, and ended up in an almost-accidental marriage. When his ambitious law-student wife moves the new couple to NYC, Tom discovers what was lurking in the shadows throughout his entire life: ..."
"Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's engraving Coup d'oeil du theatre Besancon, in which the architect's building is seen reflected in the eye of a viewer, is the centerpiece of in this intellectual archaeology. Rodolphe el-Khoury's close reading of Ledoux's celebrated icon uses it to excavate the foundations of architectural transparency, Modernism's most potent and lasting "invention," which is here traced back to an intellectual milieu that prec ..."
Reflections of Elegance Cartier Jewels from the Lindemann Collection/New Orleans Museum of Art by Eric Nussbaum, Hans Nadelhoffer Hardcover, 182 Pages, Published 1989 by New Orleans Museum Of Art ISBN-13: 978-0-89494-029-3, ISBN: 0-89494-029-5