HECOL268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beeswax, Egyptian Revival Architecture, Richard Avedon
13 Jul 2018
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Lecture 3 - the ancient middle east 3500-600 bce cont. Actual garments tend to be much wider, looser show lengths of cloth that are doubled over, hole cut for head, and openings for the arm. Mineral content - antimicrobial, prevented eye infections. Improve vision - prevent the sweat from glistening and re ecting light back into the eyes. Mediteranean, there actually becomes a greek dynasty in egypt, greek clothing, can see the pulls in the clothing leads to a type of hybrid, egyptian god dressed like a greek or roman (image) Egyptian inspiration culture dies out with rome, converts to christianity and then islam the inspiration still lives on height of the craze is in the 1920s. Queen nefertiti - becomes an image of beauty for women - highly emulated. Madame yevonde - surrealist fashion photographer photographed the bobbed hair and kohled makeup gets taken on by women in the 1920s.
