The Kimono Inspiration
Subtitle: Art and Art-To-Wear in America
Contributors: Eleanor T. Rosenfeld (Foreword); Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada (Co-editor); Textile Museum (Washington D.C.) (Collaborator); Katherine Westphal (Contributor); Joan Mondale (Preface); Masako Kuriyama (Preface); Nancy A. Corwin (Primary Contributor); Julie Schafler Dale (Primary Contributor)
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications; Pomegranate; The Textile Museum; Pomegranate Artbooks
Published: April 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780876545980
Subjects: Costume; The Arts: General Issues; Kimonos; Commercial - Fashion Design; United States; General; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Asian; USA; Wearable art; Fashion; History - Asian; Influence
Description: For more than one hundred years, the kimono has been a motif in American art and popular culture. The Kimono Inspiration -- originally published as the catalog for the exhibition at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. -- explores the use and meaning of the kimono in America and traces the transformation of this quintessential Japanese 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.