Kimono - A Modern History (gnv64)

Kimono: A Modern History
by Terry Satsuki Milhaupt
Reaktion Books | August 2014 | ISBN-10: 1780232780 | 272 pages | PDF | 21.4 mb
https://www.amazon.com/Kimono-History-Terry-Satsuki-Milhaupt/dp/1780232780

What 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.

About the Author
Terry Satsuki Milhaupt (1959–2012) was an independent art historian based in New York, a guest curator and an internationally recognized expert on Japanese textiles. She contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and publications, including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010).

CONTENTS
iNTRoduCTioN 7
1 - The FouNdATioNS oF A KiMoNo FAShioN iNduSTRy 31
2 - ModeRNiziNG The KiMoNo 56
3 - ShoPPiNG FoR KiMoNoS, ShAPiNG ideNTiTieS 97
4 - The KiMoNo ideAL MiGRATeS WeST 139
5 - KiMoNo deSiGNeRS 179
6 - EveRydAy ANd exTRAoRdiNARy, TheN ANd NoW 229
References 249
Bibliography 275
Acknowledgements 287
Afterword 289
List of Illustrations 291
Index 303