Wearing propaganda : textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945 / by John W. Dower [and others] ; Jacqueline M. Atkins, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkins, Jacqueline M., author, editor.

Dower, John W., author.

Contributor:

Allentown Art Museum, host institution.

Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, host institution, organizer.

Yale University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Fashion--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Fashion.

Textile fabrics--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Textile fabrics.

Textile fabrics--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.

World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda--Exhibitions.

World War, 1939-1945.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages) : 356 illustrations (some color), maps

Other Title:

Textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture by Yale University Press, [2005]

Summary:

"...Dramatic fashion and textile designs served as patriotic propaganda for the Japanese, British, and Americans during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). This fascinating book presents hundreds of examples of how fashion was employed by commercial interests on all sides of the conflict to boost morale and fan patriotism.... Wearing Propaganda documents the development of the role of fashion as propaganda"--Dustjacket.

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. Chapter 1. Setting the context / J.M. Atkins

Chapter 2. Propaganda on the home fronts: clothing and textiles as message / J.M. Atkins

Chapter 3. Propaganda precedents : pre-1930 propaganda textiles / J.M. Atkins and Miyuki Otaka

Part II. The visual culture of war. Chapter 4. Japan's beautiful modern war / John W. Dower

Chapter 5. Potatoes are protective, too : cultural icons of Britain at war / Antonia Lant

Chapter 6. An American vision : propaganda on the home front during World War II / Marianne Lamonaca.

Part III. Wearing propaganda : fashion, textiles, and morale on the home front. Chapter 7. "Extravagance is the Enemy" : fashion and textiles in wartime Japan / J.M. Atkins

Chapter 8. Design and war : kimono as "parlor-performance" propaganda / Kashiwagi Hiroshi

Chapter 9. War-promoting kimono (1931-45) / Wakakuwa Midori

Chapter 10. Keeping up home front morale : "Beauty and duty" in wartime Britain / Pat Kirkham

Chapter 11. London squares : the scarves of wartime Britain / Paul Rennie

Chapter 12. Showing the colors : America / Beverly Gordon

Part IV. The propaganda textile motifs of the Asia-Pacific War. Chapter 13. An arsenal of design : themes, motifs and metaphors in propaganda textiles / J.M. Atkins

Glossary.

Notes:

Description based on print version record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed February 23, 2023).

"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Wearing Propaganda : Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945 held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Nov. 18, 2005 through Feb 5, 2006. Exhibition tour: Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 8, 2006, through January 7, 2007"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-371).

ISBN:

9780300272260

030027226X

OCLC:

1371064472