Wearing propaganda : textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945
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Wearing propaganda : textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945
Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture by Yale University Press, c2005
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Other authors: Beverly Gordon, Kashiwagi Hiroshi, Pat Kirkham, Marianne Lamonaca, Antonia Lant, Miyuki Otaka, Paul Rennie, Wakakuwa Midori
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, Nov. 18, 2005-Feb. 5, 2006 and Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa., Oct. 8, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007
Bibliography: p. 368-371
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Protest fashion from the Vietnam War years is widely familiar, but today few are aware that dramatic fashion and textile designs served as patriotic propaganda for the Japanese, British, and Americans during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). This fabulously illustrated book presents hundreds of examples of how fashion was employed by those on all sides of the conflict to boost morale and fan patriotism.
From a kimono lined with images of U.S. planes blowing up to a British scarf emblazoned with hopeful anti-rationing slogans, Wearing Propaganda documents the development of the role of fashion as propaganda first in Japan and soon thereafter in Britain and the United States. The book discusses traditional and contemporary Japanese styles and what they revealed about Japanese domestic attitudes to war, and it shows how these attitudes echoed or contrasted with British and American fashions that were virulently anti-Japanese in some instances, humorously upbeat about wartime deprivations in others. With insights into style and design, fashion history, material culture, and the social history of Japan, the United States, and Britain, this book offers unexpected riches for every reader.
Published in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
Exhibition Schedule:
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York (November 18, 2005 - February 5, 2006)
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