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Found throughout India on posters, packaging, advertisements, and calendars, these colorful graphics and prints depict India's vernacular culture through secular, religious, and even political scenes. Recently popularized by consumers the world over, this rich and surprising array of images has brought the likes of Krishna and Kali, Mahatma Gandhi...

Do you ever find yourself wondering, "Has she had work done?" Do you flip through supermarket tabloids to see who's the latest star to have gone under the knife? Do you secretly adore before and after photos? Well, let's face it, who doesn't? Aesthetic surgery has become a global phenomenon. In places like Hollywood, the mystery isn't who's had...

The feminine world The work of the great Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century?a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy which Klimt and his contemporaries found?or...

Przetłumaczone na język polski wydanie anglojęzycznej książki Fashion Now, opracowanej przez Terry`ego Jonesa oraz Susie Rushton czujących styl członków redakcji wyznaczającego najmodniejsze trendy, brytyjskiego magazynu i-D. Ten mały album z serii ICONs to zarazem skrócona kompilacja obszernego tomu wydanego pod tym samym tytułem. Teraz w...

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Franz Marc (1880-1916) became known principally for his images of animals: blue horses, yellow tigers, red fawns. What was it that led him to concentrate on painting animals? Marc himself explained his choice of subject matter in these words: "From an early date I felt humankind to be 'ugly'; animals seemed to me possessed of a greater beauty and...