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Museum ideals of purpose and method (1918)

Gilman, Benjamin Ives, 1852-1933, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · Cambridge, Printed by order of the trustees of the Museum at the Riverside Press · leaf 271

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e replied to this entire argument, and withtruth, that apart from isolated and more or less far-offexamples, attic lighting, together with the multiple schemedeveloped from it, is purely a theory. The question thenarises whether it would not reward some museum withgreat expectations to spend five… … The Skiascope in Use A long and unfamiliar name for a small and not un-familiar thing. The word means shadow-seer, the seerfrom and into shadows (ovaa, shadow; a-Koireco, to see). Theskiascope uses looking from shadow as a means of lookinginto shadow. It has been devised for the purpose of…

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