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"Fashion takes the pulse of things before anyone else"
Nostalgia and politics in the wardrobe. Story at Tanea [Greek]
Nostalgia is a political purpose. It is an anesthetic. It is easier to subjugate a people by educating them to have a sweet obsession with the past and fear the future..."
The "it is easier" statement corresponds to a long running idea, to put it mildly, of observers of human activity.
Framed portrait by John Singer Sargent of Albert de Beleroche, 1882.
Detail image - Atlantic City Beach, 1931, art by Reginald Marsh – Delaware Museum of Fine Art
Indian Warrior on Horseback - bronze cast of sculpture by Alexander Phimister Proctor, 1898 - at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC
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