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The Underside of Fashion
"What do the thousands of images of lingerie on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across magazines say about our society?" Read more and discover the answer.
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Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie … Petit Bikini
Bien plus qu’un simple costume de bain, le bikini participe, dans les années 70, à la révolution sexuelle et aux modifications des comportements entre hommes et femmes.
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Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Strand Bikini
Weit mehr als nur ein einfaches Badeutensil, trägt der Bikini in den 1970er Jahren wesentlich zur sexuellen Befreiung und zur Veränderung der Beziehungen zwischen den Geschlechtern bei.
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Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini…
Bikinis are concealed, flaunted, stretched or shortened, establishing a game between yesterday’s illicit and today’s chic and thereby denouncing the sense of disgrace that these simple pieces of clothing used to betray.
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American Graffiti
As the graffiti movement progressed it became more elaborate and ubiquitous, genuine artists emerged whose unique creativity captured the attention of the world.
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Ah, Valentine’s day, the day of love… (Part 3)
Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. One of their false beliefs connected with this festival was that the names of girls who had reached marriageable age would be written on small rolls of paper and placed in a dish on a table. Then the young men who wanted to get married would be called, and each of them would pick a piece of paper. He would put himself at the service of the girl whose name he had drawn for one year so that they could find out about one another. Then they would get married, or they would repeat the same process again on the day of…
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Ah, Valentine’s day, the day of love… (Part 2)
–> Read Part 1 here. … Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine is celebrated annually on February 14. The Festival of Love was one of the festivals of the pagan Romans when paganism was the prevalent religion of the Romans more than seventeen centuries ago. In the pagan Roman concept, it was an expression of “spiritual love”. There were myths associated with this pagan festival of the Romans, which persisted with their Christian heirs. Among the most famous of these myths was the Roman belief that Romulus, the founder of Rome, was suckled one day by a she-wolf, which gave him strength and wisdom. The Romans used…
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Ah, Valentine’s day, the day of love… (Part 1)
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Valentine’s Day— the name of the holiday conjures up childhood images of heart-shaped greeting cards, chubby cupids, and giggly public-school romancing. Yet this holiday, like most others, has been commercially exploited. Nowadays all true sentimentalists, from hard-core prodigals to casual window shoppers, must go to great lengths to avoid the thousands of varieties of mass-produced Valentine’s cards, candles and assorted knick-knacks which are displayed along the routes of their once-dreamy rambles. Romantic purists will undoubtedly appreciate the non-commercial origins of “lover’s day”, for though It Is now just…
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was one of the most significant American artists and a central figure in the movement known as Pop art.
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Whistler et la Nature
Whistler and Nature – Maître victorien, James McNeill Whistler. Né en Amérique, mais vivant au Royaume-Uni pendant la plus grande partie de sa vie, il était connu comme un artiste doté d’une personnalité audacieuse et d’une attitude révolutionnaire à l’égard du monde naturel. Whistler surgit, tel un météore, à un moment crucial de l’histoire de l’art, et il joue un rôle de précurseur. Ce n’est pas un hasard si le peintre s’installe à Londres. C’est en effet en Europe que se livrent les plus belles batailles artistiques et esthétiques, et l’artiste est d’un tempérament pour le moins combatif : il a, comme les Impressionnistes et à leurs côtés, la volonté…
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