"When I first saw it, I found myself walking around with the catalog," she said.
"The bag I got with the catalog had words like vomit, shock and confusion," Mr. Joynes said.
Last year, J. C. Penney hired Bernard Feiwus, a longtime executive of Neiman Marcus and its direct sales division, to fix what was wrong with the catalog.
Together with the catalog, the exhibition uncovers a complex history of visual thought and cultural practices shaped by intensifying optical instruments.
(Directed by Jeffrey Wolf and produced by the Foundation for American Self-Taught Arthets, the DVD comes with the catalog of the Philadelphia show).
"There has been this exhaustion with the catalog of Western fashion," said Claire Hamilton, a trend analyst with the forecasting firm WGSN.
That's what happened when he was late with the catalog for his first major group exhibition, "Blind Cut," a multi-generational survey of international artists held this winter.
The only fragrances sold in the museum will be packaged with the catalog, which combines essays by Mr. Burr with small pharmaceutical-style bottles of each fragrance.
The latter, a curiously poignant picture, is the climax of the artist's book, "1978-2000," a textless arrangement of his photographs, which anyone can buy for $25, packaged with the catalog of his show.
Compare this with the catalog of the two other stars lost at about the same time: Janis Joplin, with 18 releases, and Jim Morrison of the Doors, with 33.
With the catalog in hand, the second stage was to see if any of the variants were more common in the patients with a given disease than in healthy people.
