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Wearing propaganda : textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945
Title:
Wearing propaganda : textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945
Author:
Dower, John W.
Publication Information:
New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture by Yale University Press, [2005]

©2005
Physical Description:
376 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
General Note:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Nov. 18, 2005-Feb 5, 2006; tour to: Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa., Oct. 8, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007.
Language:
English
Contents:
Director's preface / Susan Weber Soros -- Foreword / Jacqueline M. Atkins -- Introduction / J.M. Atkins -- Maps -- Time line 1895-1945: The Asia Pacific War and its precedents, 1895-1945 / Yumiko Yamamori. -- Part I. Setting the context: Ch.1. Setting the context / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.2. Propaganda on the home fronts: clothing and textiles as message / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.3. Propaganda precedents: pre-1930 propaganda textiles / J.M. Atkins and Miyuki Otaka. -- Part II. The visual culture of war: Ch.4. Japan's beautiful modern war / John W. Dower -- Ch.5. Potatoes are protective, too: cultural icons of Britain at war -- Ch.6. An American vision: progaganda on the home front during World War II / Marianne Lamonaca. -- Part III. Wearing propaganda: fashion, textiles, and morale on the home front: Ch.7. "Extravagance is the Enemy": fashion and textiles in wartime Japan / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.8. Design and war: kimono as "parlor-performance" propaganda / Kashiwagi Hiroshi -- Ch.9. War-promoting kimono (1931-45) / Wakakuwa Midori -- Ch.10. Keeping up home front morale: "Beauty and duty" in wartime Britain / Pat Kirkham -- Ch.11. Showing the colors: America / Beverly Gordon -- Part IV. The propaganda textile motifs of the Asia-Pacific War: Ch.13. An arsenal of design: themes, motifs and metaphors in propaganda textiles/ J.M. Atkins.
ISBN:
9780300109245
Format :
Book