Sharon Sadako Takeda is the Senior Curator and Head of the Costume & Textiles Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-Period Japan (1992)
“When Art Became Fashion” focuses on the kosode –harbinger of the modern kimono–and is published in conjunction with the L.A. County Museum of Art’s exhibition of the exquisite robes.
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Los Angeles, Calif. : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New York, N.Y. : Weatherhill, 1992
Format: 351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
ISBN : 0875871631 9780875871639
OCLC : 25964588
Table of contents
Table of contents
Foreword / Earl A. Powell
— Preface / Yamanobe Tomoyuki
— Acknowledgements / Dale Carolyn Gluckman & Sharon Sadako Takeda
— Chronology
— Selected Shogunal life and reign dates
— Map of Japan
— Note to the reader
— Introduction / Dale Carolyn Gluckman & Sharon Sadako Takeda
— A new society : Japan under Tokugawa rule / William B. Hauser
— Toward a new aesthetic : the evolution of the Kosode and its decoration / Dale Carolyn Gluckman
— Designs for a thousand ages : printed pattern books and Kosode / Nagasaki Iwao
— Yuzen dyeing : a new pictorialism / Kirihata Ken
— Reflections on Beni : red as a key to Edo-period fashion / Monica Bethe
— Clothed in words : calligraphic designs on Kosode / Sharon Sadako Takeda
— A wearable art : the relationship of painting to Kosode design / Robert T. Singer — Fashion and the floating world : the kosode in art / Maruyama Nobuhiko.
About the author
About the author
Dale Carolyn Gluckman is an Asian textile specialist and former costumes and textile curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Muller, Robin E. Monumenta Nipponica 49, no. 1 (1994): 129-31. Accessed January 12, 2020. doi:10.2307/2385520.
