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1 online resource (201 pages, 6 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations |
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monochrome |
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text file |
| Note |
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Christian Dior, ' held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from December 9, 1996 through March 23, 1997"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 207). |
| Summary |
Dior's career came at the fulcrum of the twentieth century. He successfully combined the historicism of the late-nineteenth-century Belle Epoque with the aesthetic and technical innovations of his own time. In Dior's works, what outwardly seems sheer romance and poetry is strengthened by structural underpinnings that demonstrate deep knowledge of craft. And while each collection is individualized even by name, the overall work created during the eleven years Dior built his art can be seen as a unit of interwoven development. From the inception of The New Look on February 12, 1947, until the designer's death in 1957, Dior was the definitive force in fashion. In addition, his corpus was to become an overriding influence on subsequent fashion. |
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Authors Richard Martin and Harold Koda, curator and associate curator, respectively, of The Costume Institute, present that corpus chronologically, and they also consider each piece as an artistic attainment and the whole as an artistic enterprise. Dior is viewed through his personal aesthetic: attention is paid to his deliberate stylistic evolution, his historicism, and his characteristic style gestures, called "Diorisms." Thus, Dior is reconsidered as a designer of artistic conviction and cautious style. Without denying Dior his magic, the photographs and texts in this book show him as a designer of skilled system and intelligence. The suite of more than 150 photographs, made expressly for this volume and published here for the first time, document the greatest collection of Dior's work in the world, which resides in The Costume Institute. |
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| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Digital Collections Fulltext Titles (Customizable) |
| Subject |
Dior, Christian -- Exhibitions.
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Dior, Christian. |
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Fashion design -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Fashion design. |
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France. |
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History. |
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20th century |
| Subject |
Fashion -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Fashion. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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History.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Koda, Harold.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Martin, Richard (Richard Harrison). Christian Dior. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1996 (DLC) 96045943 (OCoLC)35686158 |
| ISBN |
0870998226 (cloth) |
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9780870998225 (cloth) |
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0870998234 (paperback) |
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9780870998232 (paperback) |
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0810965062 (Abrams) |
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9780810965065 (Abrams) |
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