“H death cannot be too much deplored,” read the note next to his name on a list of the famous who perished in the 1858 cholera epidemic (1). Utagawa Hiroshige himself, before his death at age 62, is said to have written in verse, “I leave my brush at Azuma and go on the journey to the Holy West to view the famous scenery there” (2). Metaphorical meaning and questionable authenticity aside, when...

The investigation presented here is a case study of mimicry in which a professional impersonation artist imitated three well-known Swedish public figures. The speech material consisted of recorded material taped from radio/TV shows, imitations of these speeches in which the artist tried to mimic the speeches as closely as possible, and the same speech material recorded with the artist using his...

the most challenging part of the commission, painting the head and face, was the most trying day for me because I was unable to move my head without upsetting the pose. The artist often consulted the photographs and to my surprise used a tape measure to determine the relationships between various parts of my face. The technique of facial measurement derives from Holbein, the sixteenth century D...

For anyone who knew Eric Voegelin personally, the question elicits a smile. “Why, of course, the distance is quite far” is my own, spontaneous answer. Voegelin’s habitus, as I know it from Munich as well as Stanford, was clearly that of a man of reflective distance, not of mysticism. Reflection was his daily mode of thought, accompanied by reading, writing, and discussing. Distance was his way ...