What is interesting about the sense of smell is that it is connected to everything else. It is a connecting sense. And in terms of academic research, it's wonderful because it is so interdisciplinary.-Hans Rindisbacher
Author of The Smell of Books: A Cultural-Historical Study of Olfactory Perception in Literature
Professor of German
Chair, Dept. of German & Russian
Pomona College, Claremont, California
Rindisbacher's current research is in Soviet perfumery from socio-historic perspectives. It includes how the ideal of the feminine changes in controlled political climates, as do relationships to perfumery and cosmetics.
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Art does not reproduce the visible, rather, it makes visible. - Paul Klee
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