Did you know that ... Ofcourse you don't

Did you know that The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 500 books with full-text (& photo's) for free on their website? Even 20 fashion books?

Thanks Esther.

Haute Couture by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1995) - Download

Christian Dior by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1996) - Download

The Academy of the Sword: Illustrated Fencing Books 1500–1800 by LaRocca, Donald J. (1998) - Download

Eighteenth-Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Jacob Bean and William Griswold - Download

All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860 by Gordon Baldwin, Malcolm Daniel, and Sarah Greenough, with contributions by Richard Pare, Pam Roberts, and Roger Taylor (2004) - Download

Dada ... over a century old. Anti art

Dada the anti-art movement which was launched by Hugo Ball on July 14, 1916. Hugo Ball wrote a manifest and they met in Cabaret Voltaire, Zuerich. Its aim: to ‘get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanised, enervated.'
They created “poetry shorn of intelligible words, music devoid of melodies and statements in which the message was cannibalized by the absurdity of the language” as “a protest against a European civilization hellbent on war.”

They were only active a couple of years but had a lot of impact. I love it!

They published some magazines (1917 - 1921) which you can download now.

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