"WEARING PROPAGANDA: TEXTILES ON THE HOME FRONT IN JAPAN, BRITAIN, AND THE UNITED STATES, 1931-1945". Collectif sous la direction de Jacqueline M. ATKINS. Editions The Bard Graduate Center for studies in The Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York & Yale University Press, New Haven-London. 2005. Fort petit in-4, couverture toilée rouge sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs. Pages de garde illustrées. 376 pages. Textes en anglais de John W. Dower, Beverly Gordon, Kashiwagi Hiroshi, Pat Kirkham, Marianne Lamonaca, Antonia Lant, Miyuki Otaka, Paul Rennie & Wakakuwa Midori, illustré de nombreuses reproductions photographiques couleurs, in-texte et hors textes. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme au Bard Graduate Center du 18 Novembre 2005 au 05 Février 2006 et au Allentown Art Museum du 08 octobre 2006 au 07 Janvier 2007.

 

"Protest fashion from the Vietnam War years is widely familiar, but today few are aware that dramatic fashion and textile designs served as patriotic propaganda for the Japanese, British, and Americans during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). This fabulously illustrated 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. From a kimono lined with images of U.S. planes being bombed to a British scarf emblazoned With optimistic anti-rationing slogans, Wearing Propaganda documents the development of the role of fashion as propaganda first in Japan and soon thereafter in Britain and the United States. The book discusses traditional and contemporary Japanese styles and what they revealed about Japanese domestic attitudes to war, and it shows how these attitudes echoed or contrasted with British and American fashions that were virulently anti-Japanese in some instances, humorously upbeat about wartime deprivations in others…"

 

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