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Bayeux tapestry |
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Bayeux tapestry n (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) an 11th- or 12th-century tapestry in Bayeux, nearly 70.5 m (231 ft.) long by 50 cm (20 inches) high, depicting the Norman conquest of England How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Instead of being a Bayeux Tapestry unrolling to provide images recording historical events, "Painters, Musicians, Writers" might be viewed as a tapestry of images of what it is like to be a human being feeling and living through life with engagement, awareness, and with the potential for enjoyment, albeit amid a context also inhabited by pain and tedium: The Belgian designer's essayist approach is rife with Peter York's Babytime (in which the style commentator proposes that adults' dressing like children is an abstraction of repudiated social responsibility, the infantilist embracing of capitalism that bridged hippies to yuppies), but last season he took a more palatable sidestep: skirts and coats fringed with embroidered reproductions of the Bayeux Tapestry and underwear featuring faux Normans and Anglo-Saxons. In 11th-century France, unknown weavers stitched the conquest of England on 70 meters of linen in the Bayeux Tapestry. |
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