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Painted Ladies in the Lower Haight, San Francisco, California. During World War I and World War II many of these houses were painted battleship gray with war-surplus Navy paint. [citation needed] Another sixteen thousand were demolished. Many others had the Victorian décor stripped off or covered with tarpaper, brick, stucco, or aluminum siding.
Matrix produced a range of publications, including the book Making Space: Women and the Man Made Environment (London: Pluto Press, 1984) and two pamphlets funded by the GLC Women's Committee A Job Designing Buildings: For Women Interested in Architecture and Buildings (London: Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, 1986) and Building for ...
The statue was installed in St. Collen's Church, Llangollen (where the Ladies are buried with Mary Carryl) in a ceremony overseen by the minister and local mayor. [21] The ladies' story (along with their ghost story) is told in a chapter of the 2009 book, Queer Hauntings: True Tales of Gay and Lesbian Ghosts by Ken Summers. [22]
Gray worked within the model of modern architecture, LeCorbusier's "5 points of new architecture" for example as well as addressing the issues of the building or home as an experience. [6] This house is of particular importance in feminist theory because it called into question the typical domestic group and gender relations.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) [2] is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó, a street in ...
World of Art (formerly known as The World of Art Library) is a long established series of pocket-sized art books from the British publisher Thames & Hudson, comprising over 300 titles as of 2021. [3] The books are typically around 200 pages, but heavily illustrated.
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Models (painting) Morgan le Fay (painting) Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah; Mother and Child (Cassatt) Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid; Mother with Child; A Mother's Duty; Mothers, Sisters; Mrs. Atkinson (Gwen John) The Musician (Bartholomeus van der Helst painting) Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed'