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  • A swimming pool, Bikini Story
    Art,  English

    Sun, Sand, and Style: The Evolution of the Bikini

    June 6, 2023 / 0 Comments

    The bikini undoubtedly owed a large part of its success to the cinema – which actually featured it at first only because it was scandalous, and scandal filled seats. But it was quite right that there should have been some hesitation over it, for Hollywood had to be careful: initially it banned the bikini from the screen as “too corrupting and immoral.”

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    Süleymaniye Camii (Süleymaniye-Moschee), 1550-1557

    Die Sprache der Gesten: Erforschung des Symbolismus in islamischen Skulpturen

    July 6, 2023

    Etch a Sketch

    December 18, 2013
    L’actrice et romancière Anny Duperey (née en 1946 à Rouen), désignée par beaucoup comme la femme rêvée, dans un bikini bleu ciel à Saint-Tropez, Bikini Story

    Bikini ou Burkini – L’Histoire du Bikini

    May 20, 2022
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    Hot Summer time, Hot Bikini

    July 19, 2022 / 0 Comments

    On July 1, 1946, at 9 o’clock in the morning, an atomic bomb exploded with a force of 23,000 tons above Bikini, a coral atoll in the South Pacific hitherto virtually unheard of. More than six disarmed warships of the Japanese and American fleets were sunk and more than twice that number were seriously damaged.

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    Sultan Ahmed Mosque (The Blue Mosque), 1609-1616

    The Language of Gesture: Exploring Symbolism in Islamic Sculptures

    July 4, 2023

    Forensic Architecture:探索美学

    November 13, 2017

    Exhibition: Moscow Throughout the Centuries

    October 17, 2017
  • L’actrice et romancière Anny Duperey (née en 1946 à Rouen), désignée par beaucoup comme la femme rêvée, dans un bikini bleu ciel à Saint-Tropez, Bikini Story
    Art,  Art and Design,  Français

    Bikini ou Burkini – L’Histoire du Bikini

    May 20, 2022 / 0 Comments

    Ce livre décrypte, à travers l'histoire du bikini, l'évolution de la femme, qui assume désormais son corps et revendique l'égalité des sexes. À travers une iconographie très riche, recueillie chez les grands créateurs, ce sont plus de cinquante années de l'histoire féminine qui s'égrènent tout au long de cet ouvrage.

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    Dalí – Von Drachen und Regenbögen

    December 27, 2013
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    Pierre Bonnard – The colour of history

    January 8, 2019

    Toulouse-Lautrec and the French can-can

    February 22, 2018
  • On the beach
    Art,  Art and Design,  English

    Bikini or Burkini – The History of the Bikini

    May 18, 2022 / 0 Comments

    More than a bathing costume, the bikini made its own contribution during the 1970s to the sexual revolution and to the changing relationship between men and women in general.

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    Paysage avec saint Paul l’ermite, 1637-1638, Nicolas Poussin

    Nicolas Poussin – Le Créateur d’un Univers Pictural d’une Richesse d’Inspiration et d’une Profondeur Spirituelle

    November 18, 2022
    Die abendliche Frische am Ufer des Sumida (Okawa-bata yuryo), c. 1795-1796

    Utamaro – Bilder der die schwebenden Welt

    February 2, 2023

    Un matin dans le métro parisien

    April 11, 2014
  • Stanley Kubricks Lolita mit Sue Lyon, 1962, Patrik Alac
    Deutsch,  Ebook

    Eine Kulturgeschichte mit Bikini Story

    July 8, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Im Jahre 1946 entdeckt die Welt auf den Marshallinseln ein Atoll namens Bikini, auf dem die Amerikaner verheerende Atomtests durchführen. Weit mehr als nur ein einfaches Badeutensil trägt der Bikini in den 1970er-Jahren wesentlich zur sexuellen Befreiung und den Veränderungen der Beziehung zwischen den Geschlechtern bei.

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    Dalí – Von Drachen und Regenbögen

    December 27, 2013
    Émile Bernard, Eisen-Brücken von Asnières, 1887. Öl auf Leinwand, 45,9 x 54,2 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

    Koitieren, cloisonnieren, mal nach Bremen fahren

    April 3, 2015

    Frau Antje lädt zum Kunstgenuss

    June 18, 2013
  • Retouched photo dating from the end of the 19th century showing a temporary changing-cubicle, Patrik Alac
    Ebook,  English

    A Cultural History with Bikini Story

    July 6, 2021 / 0 Comments

    It was in 1946 that the world first came to hear of a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands called Bikini. This book is a collection of images throughout this book illustrates this progression step-by-step over a period of more than 50 years.

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    Women on the floor smoking opium and three eunuchs watching them: Broquin, Max the Eunuch and Footitt

    The Brown Fairy

    June 30, 2014
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    Le Bauhaus

    April 25, 2019

    Au revoir, Monsieur Delacroix

    September 19, 2018

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