History of Feminism
Related: About this forumc.1949: “I dreamed I was a medieval maiden in my Maidenform bra”
Oh Wow, I mean what do you say to something like that today?
The ad is based on one of the the late-15th-century Lady and the Unicorn tapestries.
The Lady and the Unicorn (French: La Dame à la licorne) is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries woven in Flanders of wool and silk, from designs (cartoons) drawn in Paris in the late fifteenth century.
- Wikipedia
http://www.retronaut.com/2013/10/maidenform/
leveymg
(36,418 posts)That Copywriter should be hunted down in his retirement and shot.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Pun purely intended.
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Whassamatter, ad designers? obvious symbolism a little too much for you?
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)Instead she's holding its mouth shut, which could be interpreted in a couple of interesting ways
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Gets the idea across, anyway. Hang the Copywriter's Art History professor who pointed out the symbolic references, too! Freudians.
You're cracking me up
leveymg
(36,418 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Authentic retro (or post-modern?), or just silly English humor. You decide:
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)But How do we know it's not an English version of crop circles?
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Which brings us right back to where we started circa 1949 Madison Ave, sorta.
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)Oy. The more things change....
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Advertising gets really incestuous. Shameless, really.
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)Of a sort. I believe they call it 'creative borrowing' these days.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Here's the philosophical underpinnings of The Church (in comic book form). Bob wouldn't mind - he has weightier issues to deal with:
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)I've seen the references but didn't know what it was about. Mixes it up a bit does it?
Now, for no apparent reason, I've got the "The Illuminatus trilogy on my mind. Hands down the hardest--or easiest book I've ever read. I read a lot so I get the equivalent of literary ear worms.
Ugh.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)or inheritance (can't decide which) before I can start a Trilogy.
Besides, reading DU daily gives me a healthy adult dose of the same sort of paranoid conspiratorial subtexts and constant melodrama. Someone should write the novel.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)BTW, bras were not invented until the early 20th century.
Edit: Dali was not post-modern.
Edit: The art was OK but the architecture was just awful.
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)But, I am far from any kind of art expert
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)Dali was a Modernist & Surrealist!
I've studied art history but I am not an expert.
Thanks for posting that great image!
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)CottonBear
(21,596 posts)gopiscrap
(23,762 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)... ....