Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Document Type: | Book |
---|---|
All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Geczy |
ISBN: | 9781847885999 1847885993 |
OCLC Number: | 883417652 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2003. |
Description: | xiii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Note continued: 4.1868-1944: The Japoniste Revolution, the Deorientalizing of the Orient and the Birth of Couture -- Japonism and the Kimono -- Deorientalizing Japan -- Deorientalizing Turkey -- Couture, Art and Costume: From Poiret to the Ballets Russes -- Paquin -- Fortuny -- The Interwar Years: The Orient in Early Film -- 5.1944-2011: Postwar Revivalism and Transorientalism -- Hippies and Counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s -- Perfume -- The New Japanese Revolution in French Couture -- Postmodern and Contemporary Couture -- Reorienting and Self-orientalizing the Orient -- The Burqa Wars. |
Responsibility: | Adam Geczy. |
Abstract:
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
For historians who are interested in dress and textiles, but who want to focus more on general ideas and the dynamics of world trade than the actual garments and materials. * TRC * Fashion and Orientalism is an important book that enhances our historical knowledge and intellectual understanding of its subject. Through detailed description and analysis, Adam Geczy contributes to the growing scholarship that seeks a more subtle understanding of the complex discourse of Orientalism and the conscious and unconscious ways that it has had an impact on Western fashion and dress. -- Hazel Clark, Research Chair of Fashion, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, USA Geczy opens our eyes to an understanding of fashion as an exchange of values between Asia and the West for the past 500 years. This timely, patiently researched, brilliantly written book will become the standard reference for the field and a must-read for anyone interested in the intersections of cultural studies, art history and philosophy. -- Melissa Chiu, Director, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA The breadth of Orientalism in this book gives it the ability to bring readers up with a start as they recognize elements from their own lives. -- Michael Carter, author of Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes Read more...

