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Kimono refashioned : Japan's impact on international fashion
\"Kimono Refashioned explores the impact of kimono on the world of fashion from the 1870s to now. Featuring works from the renowned Kyoto Costume Institute, it includes Japanese and Western designs, men's and women's apparel, and both exacting and impressionistic references to kimono. Kimono has influenced global fashion since Japan opened to the world in the late nineteenth century. Motifs used to decorate kimono, its form and silhouette, and its two-dimensional structure and linear cut have all been refashioned into a wide array of garments. Kimono revealed new possibilities in clothing design and helped to lay the foundations of contemporary clothing. Six essays from experts in the field discuss Japan's impact on international fashion. Four catalogue sections explore early examples of the influence of kimono; Japonism in fashion from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s; contemporary fashion and its use of kimono's flatness, silhouette, weave, dyeing, and decoration; and how Japan continues to inspire the world of fashion through its incorporation of popular design, including manga and anime\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Kimono
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.
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Behind \Things Left Behind\: Ishiuchi Miyako
In my new documentary, \"Things left behind\", I explore the transformative power of Hiroshima, the first major international art exhibition devoted to the atomic bomb, shown at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, Canada, from October 2011 to February 2012. The exhibition presented the eponymous photographic series by the renowned Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako (b. 1947) in 48 color prints of clothing and personal effects of some of the 140,000 people estimated to have been doomed by the bomb. To create the series, Ishiuchi brought the garments--donated by bereaved families over the decades, and poignantly vivid today--out of permanent storage at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial archive, and photographed them in the light, to trace the spirits of those who once wore them . A wall text Ishiuchi wrote for the exhibit encapsulates her personal, intuitive approach to the forbidding subject matter. OA
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\ZENetic Computer\: Exploring Japanese Culture
The authors present \"ZENetic Computer\" as a means of cultural translation using scientific methods to represent essential aspects of Japanese culture. Using images--deriving from Buddhism and other Asian concepts, sansui (landscape) paintings, poetry and kimonos--that have not heretofore been the focus of computing, the authors project the style of communication developed by Zen schools over hundreds of years into an exotic computing world that users can explore. Through encounters with Zen koans and haiku, the user is constantly and sharply forced to confirm his or her self-awareness for purposes of the story. There is no one right answer to be found anywhere.
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Merchandising Art and Identity in Meiji Japan: Kyoto Nihonga Artists' Designs for Takashimaya Department Store, 1868–1912
Department-store patronage of painters contributed to the development of painting practice and commercial design during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Japan. This article offers a case study of Takashimaya department store's employment of Kyoto painters of nihonga (Japanese-style painting) to create designs for both foreign and domestic markets. In their work for Takashimaya, these artists culled certain images from the past and developed new types of imagery that have come to define Kyoto nihonga and that informed early Japanese commercial design. These images not only helped to promote the store's products, they also provided visual manifestations of Japanese national identity. Through investigation of Takashimaya's strategies of representation during this period and analysis of images that resulted from Takashimaya's patronage, this study will trace the path of this artistic development and examine its convergence with the formation of Japanese national consciousness during this period.
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