Wearing propaganda
Subtitle: textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945
By: John W. Dower ... [et al.] ; Jacqueline M. Atkins, editor.
Contributors: Dower, John W.; Atkins, Jacqueline M.; Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture.; Allentown Art Museum.
Publisher: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture by Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda; Textile fabrics -- History -- 20th century; Fashion -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Drawing on a variety of perspectives, the book relates the history of the Bank of England to current debates on British economic, social and urban history, including issues of national identity, mercantile politics and the commercialisation of culture. The book also shows how the building itself has expressed various historical tensions among the Bank's inhabitants and publics: its directors and detractors, its clerks and clientele, its tourists and even its mob attackers."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Nov. 18, 2005-Feb 5, 2006; tour to: Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa., Oct. 8, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-371).
Table of contents: title: Director's preface / Susan Weber Soros; title: Foreword / Jacqueline M. Atkins; title: Introduction / J.M. Atkins; title: Maps; title: Time line 1895-1945: The Asia Pacific War and its precedents, 1895-1945 / Yumiko Yamamori; title: Part I. Setting the context: Ch.1. Setting the context / J.M. Atkins; title: Ch.2. Propaganda on the home fronts: clothing and textiles as message / J.M. Atkins; title: Ch.3. Propaganda precedents: pre-1930 propaganda textiles / J.M. Atkins and Miyuki Otaka.; title: Part II. The visual culture of war: Ch.4. Japan's beautiful modern war / John W. Dower; title: Ch.5. Potatoes are protective, too: cultural icons of Britain at war; title: Ch.6. An American vision: progaganda on the home front during World War II / Marianne Lamonaca.; title: Part III. Wearing propaganda: fashion, textiles, and morale on the home front: Ch.7. "Extravagance is the Enemy": fashion and textiles in wartime Japan / J.M. Atkins; title: Ch.8. Design and war: kimono as "parlor-performance" propaganda / Kashiwagi Hiroshi; title: Ch.9. War-promoting kimono (1931-45) / Wakakuwa Midori; title: Ch.10. Keeping up home front morale: "Beauty and duty" in wartime Britain / Pat Kirkham; title: Ch.11. Showing the colors: America / Beverly Gordon; title: Part IV. The propaganda textile motifs of the Asia-Pacific War: Ch.13. An arsenal of design: themes, motifs and metaphors in propaganda textiles/ J.M. Atkins.