When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-period Japan
Los Angeles/New York: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/ Weatherhill, 1992. Hardcover. Glossy pictorial dj; green cloth covers, gilt lettering. 351 pages : illustrations (some color). VG, dj shows normal wear. Item #182156
ISBN: 9780834802667
Catalogue for an exhibition held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 15, 1992-February 7, 1993.
Foreword / Earl A. Powell -- Preface / Yamanobe Tomoyuki -- Acknowledgements / Dale Carolyn Gluckman & Sharon Sadako Takeda -- Chronology -- Selected Shogunal life and reign dates -- Map of Japan -- Note to the reader -- Introduction / Dale Carolyn Gluckman & Sharon Sadako Takeda -- A new society : Japan under Tokugawa rule / William B. Hauser -- Toward a new aesthetic : the evolution of the Kosode and its decoration / Dale Carolyn Gluckman -- Designs for a thousand ages : printed pattern books and Kosode / Nagasaki Iwao -- Yuzen dyeing : a new pictorialism / Kirihata Ken -- Reflections on Beni : red as a key to Edo-period fashion / Monica Bethe -- Clothed in words : calligraphic designs on Kosode / Sharon Sadako Takeda -- A wearable art : the relationship of painting to Kosode design / Robert T. Singer -- Fashion and the floating world : the kosode in art / Maruyama Nobuhiko. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 15, 1992-February 7, 1993; this exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in cooperation with the Tokyo National Museum and the National Museum of Japanese History. Includes bibliographical references and index.
OCLC: 25964588
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