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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingIn other words, the statue was old. It wasnБЂ™t some contemporary fake. The Getty was satisfied. Fourteen months after their investigation of the kouros began, they agreed to buy the statue. In the fall of 1986, it went on display for the first time. The New York Times marked the occasion with a front-page story. A few months later, the GettyБЂ™s curator of antiquities, Marion True, wrote a long, glowing account of the museumБЂ™s acquisition for the art journal The Burlington Magazine. БЂњNow standing erect without external support, his closed hands fixed firmly to his thighs, the kouros expresses the confident vitality that is characteristic of the best of his brothers.БЂ« True concluded triumphantly, БЂњGod or man, he embodies all the radiant energy of the adolescence of western art.БЂ« The kouros, however, had a problem. It didnБЂ™t look right. The first to point this out was an Italian art historian named Federico Zeri, who served on the GettyБЂ™s board of trustees. When Zeri was taken down to the museumБЂ™s restoration studio to see the kouros in December of 1983, he found himself staring at the sculptureБЂ™s fingernails ...» |
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