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English
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An unforgettable and compassionate look at the lives of the residents of Lahore's pleasure district
The Dancing Girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond District in the shadow of a great mosque. The 21st century goes on outside the walls, this ancient quarter, but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: beloved by sultans, their sophisticated art encompassed...
7) The dancing girls of Lahore: selling love and saving dreams in Pakistan's ancient pleasure district
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
National Gallery Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This book presents a detailed study of the complete series and is lavishly illustrated with details of these emotionally charged paintings. The book explores Titian's creative process, technique, his use of literary and visual sources and his artistic legacy as well as his correspondence with Philip II. Offering the most comprehensive overview of these remarkable works, 'Titian: Love, Desire, Death' is an indispensable resource for scholars and admirers...
Publisher
Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.
13) The Newton boys
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
"This is the True Story of the most successful Bank Robbers in the History of the United States" says the old-timey title card. The Newton boys, a real-life clan of bank robbers active from 1919-1924, are both the most unsung and fiscally successful band bank robbers in American history, capping their careers with an Illinois mail-train robbery whose estimated $3 million haul was the largest theft of its kind to date. This lovingly recreated period...
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