Open AccessTheorizing Bell-Bottoms Dominating Aesthetics
Author(s) -
Stephen Sheeha
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.1000
Subject(s) - forgetting , newspaper , white (mutation) , aesthetics , art , art history , sociology , philosophy , media studies , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Bell-bottom pants invoke in me a memory of innumerable black and white newspaper photos of women marching behind banners in the student and youth demonstrations that marked the sixties and early seventies. But nostalgia is painfully ironic. Forgetting makes remembering a dangerous and tricky act.