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The psychology of dress (1920)

Parsons, Frank Alvah, 1868-1930 · Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 337

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MADAME LE BRUN EXPRESSES WELL THE FEELING OF THE TRAN-SITION FROM THE EXAGGERATION OF THE DECADE FROM 1778TO THE DIRECTOIRE IN THIS ADAPTABLE COSTUME OF ADELAIDEDE BOURBON, AS SHE HAS IN THE TWO PRECEDING ILLUSTRATIONS. … IN THE LITTLE PASTEL PORTRAIT OF LOUIS XVI THE HYPOCRITICALPOSE OF THE MONARCHIC IDEA AND THE NEW AND CONSCIOUSDESIRE TO BE FREE AND INDIVIDUAL SEEM TO BE DELIGHTFULLYCOMBINED. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: FRANCE AND ITALY critic says: There was nothing spiritual in art, not eventhe Madonna who tried to be…

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