Fashioning Kimono: Dress And Modernity in Early Twentieth-century Japan (Gallery of the Arts S.)

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Fashioning Kimono focuses on 150 Japanese garments dating from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries, taken from the renowned Montgomery Collection, which includes informal kimonos for both women and men, haori jackets, under-garments, ceremonial and formal clothes, and children's robes. Some of the designs reflect historical continuity, but many others demonstrate a radical break from the traditional. Themes and designs from Western art predominate over historical Japanese references, illustrating the modernization and Westernization of Japan at this time.

The range of the collection represents one of the most dynamic periods in Japan's national costume. It encompasses the final phase of the "living" kimono, when the kimono was still the daily wear of most Japanese people. After Japan's defeat in the Pacific War and the destruction of virtually all its major urban centres, Western clothes quickly came to replace the kimono, being considered more affordable and conducive to the new post-war lifestyle. It eventually took on a purely ceremonial or formal role, and today, except for the few fashionably daring, the kimono is worn mainly for the tea ceremony, funerals, and weddings.

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Wanting more.......2007-04-11

The first fourth of the book contains a lot of valuable information about styles and techniques, then the rest is page after page of photos. Beautiful photos, but I wish there was more discussion about cultural significance of the designs depicted.

Kimono.......2006-11-10

This is a beautiful book. As a maker of Kimono, I am always searching for reference books and this is one of the best.

A VIRTUAL PANOPLY OF COLOR, ART, AND HISTORY.......2005-11-16

"Fashioning Kimono" is a virtual panoply of color, art, and history focusing on kimono from the vast collection of Jeffrey Montgomery. Among the 1200 rare objects in Montgomery's enviable collection are these 150 kimono dating from the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth centuries. It is an array comprehensive in scope with kimono and haori jackets worn by men, women and children.

The almost 200 photographs of the textiles by Stefano Ember are stunning - bold, aresting in hue, delicate as a butterfly's wing in design. Publication of this volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which runs from mid October of this year through May 1, 2006.

Annie Van Assche, the editor and primary author, presents a history of the kimono, while additional essays include such topics as new styles based on Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs, the kimono's influence on Parisian fashion, and the fascinating memoir of a Japanese girl growing up in the 1930s and 1940s.

As Van Assche notes silk is at the very heart of the Japanese kimono culture. It's strength, sheen and adaptability to dyes make it the ideal material. The inspired use of color, we learn, may be due in part to the fact that in ancient times the Japanese believed "color imbued a garment with special powers."

All with an interest in fashion, design and the Japanese culture will find "Fashioning Kimono" an indispensable addition to a personal library.

- Gail Cooke

flowering of the Japanese kimono in its last years.......2005-11-14

The early decades of the 1900s were the final flowering for the Japanese kimono, the standard clothing for men and women going back for centuries. This was literally so for many kimonos; for they have bright, sometimes lavish, flower patterns and images from the influences of the Western art styles of art nouveau and even art deco. The growing modernization and Westernization of Japan at this time was seen in the changing patterns in the kimono. The stylistic innovations came to an end with the turn to Western clothing after Japan's defeat in WWII and the destruction of the country's industry. One hundred and fifty modern kimono from about the 1890s to the 1930s from the collection of Jeffrey Montgomery are shown in color photographs with close-ups of the details of a few. The photos are full-page on the right with notes on the facing page. The book is done in conjunction with an exhibition of the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum through May 2006. The beginning essay by editor and contributor Annie Van Assche--textile artisan, Japanese art historian, and one-time curator of education for the Japan Society Gallery in New York--is an outstanding brief course on the artistic aspects, manufacture, and types and eras of kimono while serving as a lead-in to the following four essays taking up different topics regarding its final, modern, period.

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Neil Gaiman is one of the most successful and versatile writers working today. He has become renowned not only for the consistently high quality of his writing but for his mastery of many media. He is an award-winning comic book writer (Sandman), novelist (American Gods), children's book author (The Wolves in the Walls), and television screenwriter (Neverwhere). Yet with all the fans hungry to know more about his work, there has not yet been a single major nonfiction book covering Gaiman's entire creative output. Until now. This book presents a thorough look at Gaiman's work not only through his eyes, but through the eyes of his many collaborators. A must-read for Gaiman's many devotees--and for anyone else who's wild about fantasy, horror, and graphic novels. --School Library Journal

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'How To Shoot A feautre Film For Under $10,000' Is a hit for me!.......2007-06-14

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Bret Stern's book is funny, useful, and true, which makes it better than 90 percent of the filmmaking books out there. Stern breaks down the filmmaking process into small bits, all of which you can perform without spending a dime, and then, when money is involved, he shows you how you can somewhat legally avoid paying any. Unfunded or underfunded filmmaking is a dicey business, and Stern's book reads like it was written by a true junky. Fortunately for us, Stern's takes on everything but visual technology are dead on and never will out of date, at least until we can simulate actors on our home PC's (its coming, if not already here). Where Stern's book goes awry, for me, anyway, is that it hasn't been updated since 2002, and misses the DVX revolution. Every point of filmmaking has altered in favor of the ill-prepared since then. Running around with an ARRI SR3 or a BL required a platoon. Running around with a DVX-100a or, sigh, an HVX-200 requires a much smaller group. You still need a good script, and good lighting, all of which Stern discusses, and of course cheap food for the cast and crew. Stern supplies some nasty receipes which all have promise.

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Anthropology is Good -- Undertsanding cognition is good........2005-01-23

Gilmore gave this excellent book a 1 star rating because it was about anthropology, not blacksmithing. Duh.

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Maxine Harrell owns one of the many hair salons on Detroit's West Side. Maxine spent her childhood watching her grandmother transform women from feeling down and out to loving themselves bringing smiles to their faces, all the while supplying some extra income to the household pot. "Doing hair," is her destiny. Still single and knocking on thirty's door, Maxine is desperately searching for someone real to love. With the help of her girls she'll get by, but stays determined to find happiness.

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Love Shouldn't Hurt.......2005-08-22

Maxine Harrell is the proud owner of a successful hair salon, owns her own home and has a body most women would kill for. Indira Carr is a successful art gallery dealer, well educated and has the looks of a top model. Sydney Carr is a single mother with a good job, beautiful baby daughter and a supportive father.

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A Lesson Learned.......2004-12-28

How often does a man go through life feeling as though he'll never find his one and only true love? I'm sure it's not nearly as much as a woman does, especially if she is over the age of thirty and her biological clock no longer sounds like a tick - but an alarm. Maxine is business savvy but man stupid; she sleeps with men without knowing more than their names. Her physical needs take precedent over her emotional needs. Indira is in an abusive marriage with a man she loves dearly. She wanted to one day have children but can't, at least not with her husband since he had a vasectomy before they married. Sydney, on the other hand, is a single-mother still pining for the father of her child. She lives with the hope that one day he'll return to her and their daughter.

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NO NEED TO READ.......2004-10-07

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Sisterly Love.......2003-12-25

A friendship is considered a relationship filled with mutual affection, good will, and harmonious cooperation. If successful this bond becomes so strong that it results in a completeness that only a devoted family member can extend. She'll Learn by Sybil Barkley-Staples is a heart warming novel that embraces a friendship between three women, Indira, Sydney, and Maxine, during an unfortunate time in their lives.

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Indira, Maxine and Sydney are best friends that grew up in Detroit's inner city. In Sybil Barkley-Staples' book She'll Learn, the women experience relationship problems with their men and their mothers. Indira is married to an abusive man twenty years her senior. When he decides to leave her, she is devastated. For years, Indira has harbored anger towards her deceased mother for staying in an abusive marriage, but finds herself doing the same thing. Maxine is searching for "Mr. Right." When she meets Bruce, she thinks she has found him but to her dismay he is married. After their breakup she is left with an unexpected gift. Maxine was raised by her grandmother who loved her unconditionally, because her mother chose heroin over her. When her mother becomes ill, Maxine has to put aside the past. Finally, there is Sydney; she is still in love with Anthony, her "Baby's Daddy" who has been absent for the past two years. Her undying love for him prevents her from establishing any other relationship. Also suffering is Sydney's relationship with her mother. Her mother was so distraught over Sydney's pregnancy and relationship with Anthony; she has not spoken to Sydney for two years, even though they see each other every Sunday at church.

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