His bronzes are left pitted by their plaster casts or are particolored from carefully ladled-on corrosive dyes; his wooden statuary is daubed with earthy tints, oil paints .
Over on the other side of the particolored band were the backers of the policy that (with some disastrous lapses in Asia) had dominated America's conduct in the world since 1940 .
Erwin Gans-Ruedin's Indian Carpets (Rizzoli; 318 pages; $85) is a particolored object lesson in how art is overtaken by commerce.