Art Deco
Art deco is a twentieth century art movement. It began as a decorative art style and grew ...
In a country that has neither foreign commerce nor any of the finer manufactures, a great proprietor, having nothing for which he can exchange the greater part of the produce of his lands, which is over and above the maintenance of the cultivators, consumes the whole in rustic hospitality at home. If this surplus produce is sufficient to maintain a hundred or a thousand men, he can make use of it in no other way than by maintaining a hundred or a thousand men. He is at all times, therefore, surrounded with a multitude of retainers and dependents, who, having no equivalent to give in return for their maintenance, but being fed entirely by his bounty, must obey him, for the same reason that soldiers must obey the prince who pays them.
Art deco is a twentieth century art movement. It began as a decorative art style and grew ...
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Prince Vasili always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale part. Anna Pavlovna ...