Kimono as Art
Author: Dale Carolyn Gluckman
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first major book on Japanese textile artist Itchiku Kubota, published to accompany a touring exhibition.
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The Kimono Inspiration
Author: Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: Pomegranate
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0876545983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book explores the use and meaning of the kimono in America and traces the transformation of the garment from its ethnic origins, through its many appearances in fine art, costume, and high fashion, to its role in the contemporary Art-to-Wear Movement. It explores the American use of the kimono as a garment, as a symbol, and as an art form.
Kimono
Author: Terry Satsuki Milhaupt
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1780233175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the kimono? Everyday garment? Art object? Symbol of Japan? As this book shows, the kimono has served all of these roles, its meaning changing across time and with the perspective of the wearer or viewer. Kimono: A Modern History begins by exposing the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century foundations of the modern kimono fashion industry. It explores the crossover between ‘art’ and ‘fashion’ in this period at the hands of famous Japanese painters who worked with clothing pattern books and painted directly onto garments. With Japan’s exposure to Western fashion in the nineteenth century, and Westerners’ exposure to Japanese modes of dress and design, the kimono took on new associations and came to symbolize an exotic culture and an alluring female form. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the kimono industry was sustained through government support. The line between fashion and art became blurred as kimonos produced by famous designers were collected for their beauty and displayed in museums, rather than being worn as clothing. Today, the kimono has once again taken on new dimensions, as the Internet and social media proliferate images of the kimono as a versatile garment to be integrated into a range of individual styles. Kimono: A Modern History, the inspiration for a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,not only tells the story of a distinctive garment’s ever-changing functions and image, but provides a novel perspective on Japan’s modernization and encounter with the West.
Kimono Design
Author: Keiko Nitanai
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2017-05-16
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 146291926X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns uses hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information on colors, fabrics and embellishments to paint a portrait of Japanese culture, art and thought. Lavish classical patterns, sweeping scenes, and the many motifs that have been woven, dyed, painted or embroidered into these textiles reveal a reflectiveness, a sense of humor, and an appreciation of exquisite beauty that is uniquely Japanese. Organized according to motifs traditionally associated with each season of the year, Kimono Design interprets the kimono's special language as expressed in depictions of: Flowers and grasses Birds and other animals Symbols of power, luck and prestige Land-and-seascapes scenes from literature, history and daily life scenes of travel and the Japanese concept of other lands and many others… Extensive notes on all the motifs demonstrate how the kimono reflects changing times and a sense of the timeless. Information on jewelry, hairpins and other accessories is scattered throughout to give a fuller sense of the Japanese art of dress. This is a volume that Japanophiles, historians, artists and designers will all cherish.
Fashioning Kimono
Author: Annie M. Van Assche
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished to accompany the exhibition held at the Victorian and Albert Museum, London, 13 October 2005 - 1 May 2006.
Back to Japan
Author: Marc Petitjean
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1635420903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBustle: Best Book of the Month From the critically acclaimed author of The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris, a fascinating, intimate portrait of one of Japan’s most influential and respected textile artists. Writer, filmmaker, and photographer Marc Petitjean finds himself in Kyoto one fine morning with his camera, to film a man who will become his friend: Kunihiko Moriguchi, a master kimono painter and Living National Treasure—like his father before him. As a young decorative arts student in the 1960s, Moriguchi rubbed shoulders with the cultural elite of Paris and befriended Balthus, who would profoundly influence his artistic career. Discouraged by Balthus from pursuing design in Europe, he returned to Japan to take up his father’s vocation. Once back in this world of tradition he had tried to escape, Moriguchi contemporized the craft of Yūzen (resist dyeing) through his innovative use of abstraction in patterns. With a documentarian’s keen eye, Petitjean retraces Moriguchi’s remarkable life, from his childhood during the turbulent 1940s and 50s marked by war, to his prime as an artist with works exhibited in the most prestigious museums in the world.
The Kimono in Print
Author: Vivian Li
Publisher: Brill Hotei
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9789004424647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design will be the first ever publication devoted to examining the kimono as a major source of inspiration, and later vehicle for experimentation, in Japanese print design and culture from the Edo period (1603-1868) to the Meiji period (1868-1912). Print artists, through the wide circulation of prints, have documented the ever-evolving trends in fashion, have popularized certain styles of dress, and have even been known to have designed kimonos. Some famous print designers also were directly involved in the kimono business as designers of kimono pattern books, such as Nishikawa Sukenobu (1671-1751) and Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764). The dialogue between fashion and print is illustrated here by approximately 70 Japanese prints and illustrated books--by Nishikawa Sukenobu, Suzuki Harunobu, Utagawa Kunisada, Kikukawa Eizan, and Kamisaka Sekka, among others. The group of five essays features new research and scholarship by an international group of leading scholars working today at the intersection of the Japanese print and kimono worlds and the social, cultural, and global significances circulated therein.
Japanese Art in Detail
Author: John Reeve
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780674023918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is Japanese art? This book supplies an answer that gives a reader both a true picture and a fine understanding of Japanese art. Arranged thematically, the book includes chapters on nature and pleasure, landscape and beauty, all framed by themes of serenity and turmoil, the two poles of Japanese culture ancient and modern.
Zuanchō in Kyoto
Author: Kenichirō Yokoya
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatalogue of an exhibition of Japanese woodblock-printed books of design ideas for kimonos. Generously illustrated in full color with images demonstrating the changes in surface design for kimono in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (ca. 1890-1940).
When Art Became Fashion
Author: Dale Carolyn Gluckman
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExhibition, held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from November 15, 1992, to February 7, 1993
