Kimono : the art and evolution of Japanese fashion : the Khalili Collections / Anna Jackson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 2015Description: 319 p. : ill. (black and white, and colour) ; 31 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780500518021 (hbk.) :
- 391.KIM 23
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 391 KIM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100640748 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In traditional Japanese dress, the surface of the garment is most important. The T-shaped, straight-seamed, front-wrapping kimono has changed its shape very little over the centuries, but the weaving, dyeing, and embroidery used to decorate its surface make each a unique, wearable work of art. Choice of color and pattern vary richly to indicate gender, age, status, wealth, and taste, and are executed in a complex combination of weaving, dyeing, and embroidery techniques, with a single garment sometimes requiring the expert skills of a number of different artisans.
Kimono showcases a magnificent range of kimonos from the the Khalili Collection, which comprises more than 200 garments and spans almost 300 years of Japanese textile artistry.
Gorgeously illustrated and written by an international team of experts, the book surveys kimono of the imperial court, samurai aristocracy, and affluent merchant classes of the Edo period (1603-1868); the shifting styles and new color palette of Meiji period dress (1868-1912); and the bold and dazzling kimono of the Taisho (1912-26) and early Showa (1926-89) periods, when designers used innovative new techniques and fused traditional looks with inspiration from the modernist aesthetic then sweeping the world.
Bibliography (p.314-315), Index (p.318-319)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Anna Jackson is a poet and academic, born in 1967. She received a DPhil from Oxford University and currently teaches English literature at Victoria University of Wellington. She has written several poetry collections including Thicket and I, Clodia, and Other Portraits. She is also the author of Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers' Diaries 1915-1962 and British Juvenile Fiction 1850-1950: The Age of Adolescence written with Charles Ferrall. In 2015 she won the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. This fellowship provides the winner with a three-month residency in Menton, France, and a monetary award of NZ$35,000. Her novella, The Bed-Making Competition (2018), won a 2018 Viva la Novella prize.(Bowker Author Biography)