Archives du mardi 23 août 2005
le mardi 23 août 2005 [n° 346] Fashion
The flapper : a definition
John Held Jr who defines the "Roaring Twenties", immortalized the flapper in his cartoons by drawing young girls wearing unbuckled galoshes that would make a "flapping" noise when walking.
F. Scott Fitzgerald described the ideal flapper as "lovely, expensive, and about nineteen."
Warren Fabian, the director of the film "Flaming Youth" (1923) , declared ...
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le mardi 23 août 2005 [n° 345] Art
"At the close of that decade, Yves Klein held an exhibition entitled Le Vide (The Void) at Iris Clert Gallery in Paris. He demonstrated the value of the immaterial as pure energy, beyond all objects. The following year, in 1959, Tinguely perfected his painting machines, or Métamatics, and Raymond Hains presented a work made from torn posters, La Palissade des ...
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