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| x V&A Illustration Awards | V&A Illustration Awards 2007 | ||
| x Ikat |
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Central Asian Ikats from the Rau Collection |
Ikat, or Ikkat, is a style of weaving that uses a resist dyeing process similar to tie-dye on either the warp or weft before the threads are woven to create a pattern or design. A Double Ikat is when both the warp and the weft are tie-dyed before...
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| x George Frederick Bodley | The Holiness of Beauty: G.F. Bodley (1827-1907) and his circle |
George Frederick Bodley (1827 – 21 October 1907) was an English architect working in the Gothic revival style.
He was the youngest son of a physician in Brighton, Sussex, England. His elder brother, the Rev. W. H. Bodley, became a well-known Roman...
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| x Haute couture |
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The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947 - 1957 |
Haute couture (French for "high sewing" or "high dressmaking"; pronounced [oːt kutyʁ]) refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality,...
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| Remaking Fashion | |||
| x Lee Miller | The Art of Lee Miller | ||
| x Alexey Brodovitch |
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Paper Movies: Graphic Design and Photography at Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, 1934 to 1963 |
Alexey Brodovitch (also Brodovich; Russian: Алексей Бродович; 1898 – April 15, 1971) was a Russian-born photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar from 1938 to 1958.
Alexey...
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| x Alexander Liberman |
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Paper Movies: Graphic Design and Photography at Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, 1934 to 1963 |
Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (born in Kiev September 4, 1912 - died in Miami November 19, 1999) was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé...
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| x VOGUE |
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Paper Movies: Graphic Design and Photography at Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, 1934 to 1963 |
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in 16 countries + Latin America by Condé Nast Publications. Each month, Vogue publishes a magazine addressing topics of fashion, life and design.
Vogue was described by book critic Caroline Weber...
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| x Harper's Bazaar | Paper Movies: Graphic Design and Photography at Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, 1934 to 1963 |
Harper's Bazaar is a well-known American fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harper's Bazaar considers itself to be the style resource for "the well-dressed woman and the well-dressed mind".
Aimed at members of the upper-middle class and...
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| x Curtis Moffat | Curtis Moffat: Experimental Photography and Design, 1923–1935 |
Curtis Moffat (1887 – 1949) was an abstract photographer, color still life and society portraitist. At times he collaborated with Man Ray.
Moffat was born in New York in 1887 and died in 1949 at his home in Martha's Vineyard. He studied in New York...
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| x Victoria and Albert Museum |
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A Grand Design - The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum |
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A;) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was...
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| x Henri Cartier-Bresson |
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Breathless! Photography and Time |
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street...
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| Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century | |||
| x David Hockney |
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Breathless! Photography and Time |
David Hockney, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire, although he also maintains a base in London. An important contributor to the Pop art...
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| x W. Eugene Smith |
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Breathless! Photography and Time |
William Eugene Smith (December 20, 1918, Wichita, Kansas – October 15, 1978, Tucson, Arizona) was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs.
Smith graduated...
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| Living with the Dead: W. Eugene Smith and World War II | |||
| x Corporate branding |
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Brand.New |
Corporate branding is the practice of using a company's name as a product brand name. It is an attempt to leverage corporate brand equity to create product brand recognition. It is a type of family branding or umbrella brand. Disney, for example,...
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| x Spying | The Science of Spying | ||
| x Anatomy |
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Bodyworlds 1 |
Anatomy (from the Greek ἀνατομία anatomia, from ἀνατέμνειν ana: separate, apart from, and temnein, to cut up, cut open) is a branch of biology and medicine that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that...
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| Bodyworlds 4 | |||
| Bodyworlds 3: The story of our heart | |||
| Bodyworlds 2: The brain - our 3 pound gem | |||
| BODIES... The Exhibition | |||
| x Tutankhamun |
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The Treasures of Tutankhamun |
Tutankhamun (alternately spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon), Egyptian twt-ˁnḫ-ı͗mn; tVwa:t-ʕa:nəx-ʔaˡma:n (1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled 1333 BC – 1324 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period...
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| Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs | |||
| Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs | |||
| x White Star Line |
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White Star Exhibition |
The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated luxury flagship, the RMS Titanic, and the World War...
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| x Jack the Ripper |
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Jack the Ripper and the East End |
Jack the Ripper was a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished districts in and around Whitechapel, London, in late 1888. The name originated in a letter by someone claiming to be the murderer that was sent...
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| x Sports |
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Science of Sport |
Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome (winning...
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| x Physical fitness |
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Science of Sport |
Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness (a state of health and well-being) and specific fitness (a task-oriented definition based on the ability to perform specific aspects of sports or occupations).
In previous years,...
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| x Butterfly |
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Amazing Butterflies |
A butterfly is an insect of the order Lepidoptera. Like all Holometabolis insects, butterflies' life cycle consists of four parts, egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Most species are diurnal. The diverse patterns formed by their brightly coloured wings...
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| The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter | |||
| x Dinosaurs | Dino Jaws | ||
| x Antarctica |
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Ice Station Antarctica |
Antarctica (pronounced /ænˈtɑrktɪkə/ ( listen), is Earth's southernmost continent, underlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the...
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| Andrea Juan, Antarctica Project III, Methane | |||
| x Turner Prize |
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Turner Prize: A Retrospective 1984-2006 |
The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it...
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| x Jake and Dinos Chapman |
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Jake & Dinos Chapman - A Retrospective |
Jake Chapman (born 1966) and Dinos Chapman (born 1962) are brothers and English conceptual artists, known as the Chapman Brothers, who work almost exclusively in collaboration with each other. They came to prominence as part of the Young British...
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| x Nuclear power |
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Nuclear Waste: can you handle it? |
Nuclear power is power (generally electrical) produced from controlled (ie, non-explosive) nuclear reactions. Commercial plants in use to date use nuclear fission reactions. Electric utility reactors heat water to produce steam, which is then used...
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| x Nuclear waste | Nuclear Waste: can you handle it? | ||
| x Art |
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Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book |
Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, sculpture,...
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| The Best of Manchester | |||
| All for Art! Our Great Private Collectors Share Their Works | |||
| Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection | |||
| State of the Art: New York | |||
| x Books | Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book | ||
| x Olympics posters | A Century of Olympic Posters | ||
| x Graphic design |
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A Century of Olympic Posters |
The term graphic design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation. Various methods are used to create and combine symbols, images and/or words to create a visual...
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| x Vanity Fair |
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Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913 - 2008 |
Vanity Fair is an American magazine of pop culture, fashion, and politics published by Condé Nast Publications. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1981 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S....
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| x Design |
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Brit Insurance Designs of the Year |
Design is the planning that lays the basis for the making of every object or system. It can be used both as a noun and as a verb and, in a broader way, it means applied arts and engineering (See design disciplines below). As a verb, "to design"...
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| China Design Now | |||
| Australian International Design Awards | |||
| Curators Select: Recent Acquisitions, 2003–2008 | |||
| Just In: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection | |||
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| x London |
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Underground: London’s Hidden Infrastructure |
London (pronounced /ˈlʌndən/) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core,...
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| Des Res: London's Housing Challenge | |||
| Skeletons: London's buried bones | |||
| London's Town: Shaping the Polycentric City | |||
| Digital Citities: London's Future | |||
| x China |
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China Design Now |
China (traditional Chinese: 中國; simplified Chinese: 中国; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngguó (help·info); Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguó; Wade-Giles (Mandarin): Chung¹kuo²) is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or...
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| x The Supremes |
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The Story of The Supremes: from the Mary Wilson Collection |
The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.
Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes,...
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| x Great Fire of London |
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London’s Burning: the Great Fire of London 1666 |
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman City...
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| x Tottenham Court Road tube station |
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Transforming Tottenham Court Road |
Tottenham Court Road is a station on the London Underground, serving as an interchange between the Central line and the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line.
On the Central line it is between Oxford Circus and Holborn, and on the Northern line...
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| x Crossrail |
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Transforming Tottenham Court Road |
Crossrail is a project to build major new railway connections under central London. The project's name refers to the first of two routes proposed by Cross London Rail Links Ltd, based around an east-west tunnel from Paddington to Liverpool Street...
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| x Housing | Des Res: London's Housing Challenge | ||
| x Burial grounds | Skeletons: London's buried bones | ||
| x Festival of Britain |
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From Atoms to Patterns |
The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London and around Britain in May 1951. The official opening was on 3 May. The principal exhibition site was on the South Bank Site, London of the River Thames near Waterloo Station....
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| x Ian Fleming |
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For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond |
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British author and journalist. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling Bond's adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. With over 100...
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| x Inflation |
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The Pound in your Pocket |
In economics, inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. When the price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services; consequently, inflation is also an erosion...
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| x Doctor Who |
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Doctor Who Exhibition |
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor" who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally...
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| Doctor Who Up Close Exhibition | |||
| The Art of Doctor Who | |||
| x Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester |
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The Making of MOSI: 25th Anniversary |
The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (MOSI), located in Manchester, England, is a large museum devoted to the development of science, technology, and industry and particularly the city's considerable contributions to these. It is an...
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| x Manga |
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How manga took over the world |
Manga (kanji: 漫画; hiragana: まんが; katakana: マンガ; listen (help·info)) (English: /ˈmɑːŋɡə/) consist of comics and print cartoons (sometimes also called komikku コミック), in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late...
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| x The Haçienda |
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Hacienda 25 The Exhibition: fac 491 |
Fac 51 Haçienda (better known simply as The Haçienda) was a nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England. It became most famous during the "Madchester" years of the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the 1990s it was labelled the most famous...
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| x Urban gardening | Urban Gardening |
Urban gardening may refer to:
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| x Gardening |
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Urban Gardening |
Gardening is the practice of growing ornamental or useful plants. Ornamental plants are normally grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance. Useful plants may be grown for consumption (vegetables, fruits, herbs, or leaf vegetables) or...
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| x Music |
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The Best of Manchester |
Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word...
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| Looking at Music | |||
| x Fashion |
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The Best of Manchester |
Fashion is the style and custom prevalent at a given time. In its most common usage however, "fashion" describes the popular clothing style. Many fashions are popular in many cultures at any given time. Important is the idea that the course of...
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| Women's Fashions of La Belle Époque 1890-1914 | |||
| The Victorians | |||
| x Asia-Pacific |
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Picture Paradise: Asia-Pacific photography 1840s -1940s |
Asia-Pacific or Apac is that part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean. The area includes much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australasia and Oceania). Sometimes the term Asia-Pacific includes South Asia, though India and its neighbours...
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| x Home | Home at last | ||
| x Polynesia |
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Gods, ghosts and men |
Polynesia (from Greek: πολύς "polus" many + νῆσος "nēsos" island) is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.
Polynesia is generally defined as the islands...
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| x Melanesia |
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Gods, ghosts and men |
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji. The region comprises most of the islands immediately north and northeast of Australia. The name Melanesia (from Greek:...
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| x Edgar Degas |
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Degas: Master of French art |
Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (French pronunciation: [ilɛʀ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡɑʀ dœˈɡɑ]), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of...
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| Degas: The Dancers | |||
| Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas | |||
| Degas and the Dance | |||
| Degas’ world the rage for change | |||
| x Frida Kahlo |
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Frida Kahlo |
Frida Kahlo (born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón; July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico and European influences including...
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| Frida Kahlo: Public Image, Private Life. A Selection of Photographs and Letters | |||
