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The Artifice of Beauty: A History and Practical Guide to Perfumes and Cosmetics

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2008-03-24 17:05:56 by Perfume Lover in Discount Perfume Guide
...nineteenth century alone have filled multiple shelves of books each chapter provides a good groundwork for understanding cosmetics, perfumes, and ideas of beauty in the period. Her strongest suit is in the early evidence, Ancient World and Classical world sections, but those areas have previously been the subject of much archaeology but...
 
Tags: beauty book, book, unique book traces, ancient beauty book, beauty, cosmetics, pre-modern culture, modern, modern cosmetic pigments
 
 
 
 
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A VFG*** Must See*** Exhibit Boston

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2008-07-23 06:57:00 by Couture Allure Vintage Fashion in Vintage Fashion Guild
...nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Art Nouveau jewelry. Although many of these artists acquired their skills in traditional, high-style jewelry houses, they found inspiration in the work of the Pre-Raphaelites, the philosophy of John Ruskin (18191900), the paintings and poetry of the symbolists, and the arts of Japan. For motifs, they...
 
Tags: high-style jewelry houses, style jewelry, jewelry, art nouveau jewelry, art nouveau, art nouveau artist, color, georges fouquet, pastel color palette
 
 
 
 
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Preen 05

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2007-12-17 22:40:00 by riz in Mode et Utopie
...nineteenth century European, specifically French, art. I want to stress that my intent is not to claim the image is indecent, or ethically wrong, as I try to distance myself from such moral ideologies. I am a fan of the magazine after all. But I do think the image is a quite compelling contemporary example of what Said has called Latent...
 
Tags: western, concerns western representations, classic text orientalism, text, latent orientalism, image, subject, complex subject, displays feminine penetrability
 
 
 
 
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Jerry Saltz on What the Met's Losing in De Montebello and What It Needs From Its Next Director

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2008-01-09 14:08:27 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wing; and the reinstallation of Oceanic Art, the galleries with the most and biggest penises anywhere in New York. ( Click here to watch Jerry Saltz's video tour of the Metropolitan Museum Not every thing has been peaches and cream during De Montebellos tenure. The fabled Temple of Dendur, installed...
 
Tags: montebello, art, 21st-century art, director, islamic art, contemporary art, museum, jerry saltz, metropolitan museum
 
 
 
 
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Who's Snooty Enough to Replace Philippe de Montebello?

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2008-01-09 13:20:29 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...nineteenth century, modern, and contemporary art at the Met, Tinterow certainly has the snooty bona fides. We also love his glasses. On the other hand, we hear he's actually quite well liked inside the Met, which suggests he might not be snooty enough SNOOTOMETER RATING: 7.7 Photo: Getty Images Glenn D. Lowry. The hugely successful...
 
Tags: museum, art-museum editor, snooty museum director, snooty, fitzwilliam museum, kimbell art museum, british museum, kimbell museum, snootometer
 
 
 
 
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A Few Of My Favorite Venues, Outside The Tents

2008-01-25 15:16:18 by Lauren Goldstein Crowe in Portfolio.com: Fashion Inc.
 
...nineteenth-century Parisian dance hall, was a tribute to the Sydney Pollock film, The Shoot Horses, Don't They , complete with dancing models was another perfect blend of venue and collection And the last one that sticks out in my head is one I didn't see. The Christian Dior "Doirent Express" haute couture show held on a train at the Gare...
 
Tags: venue, ideal venue, male models, bridge, london bridge, models, mixed venue, mirror ball, enormous mirror ball
 
 
 
 
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Bags : an Illustrated History

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2008-02-01 22:37:00 by eFashionHouse in Handbags, Purses, Jewelry, Clothes - DesignersLA
...nineteenth century with reticules (essentially pockets with handles) and Louis Vuitton's revolutionary Noe bag for the female traveller, via Art Deco clutch bags moulded in Bakelite and the Hermes Kelly bag endorsed by Princess Grace in the 1950s, right up to the accessory of the moment, the Mulberry Roxanne Luxury goods makers feel chill...
 
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Snootometer Update: Gary Tinterow Makes His Move!

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2008-02-04 10:00:27 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...nineteenth-century galleries, and guess whose quote opens the piece? Why, Gary Tinterow's Schjeldahl's piece is an ode to De Montebello's tradition of giving curators primacy in the development of the Met, and Tinterow is clearly fingered as Philippe's heir, the scholar whose hard work has illuminated the majestic new galleries. Schjeldahl's...
 
Tags: tinterow, gary tinterow, philippe, replace philippe, montebello, snootometer, european tour nyer, montebellos obvious formula, lesser mortals
 
 
 
 
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Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater Talk About What's Next

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2008-02-21 12:30:30 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...nineteenth-century German teens dying of suicide or botched abortion, think again: "The kids who survived grow up to be the parents of the Nazis," noted Sater. Springtime Awakening for Hitler ? Tim Murphy
 
Tags: sheik, duncan sheik, composer duncan sheik, duncan, sater, noted sater, musical, preeminent rock musical, youth-rock musical