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

Collection type	Library
Author	Dower, John W.; Atkins, Jacqueline.; Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture;
Document type	Monograph
Year	c2005.
Pagination	376 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Publisher	Yale University Press,
Note	Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York. (3y (BThis 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 the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture from November 18, 2005, through February 5, 2006 (S3 (B -- T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-371)
Place made	New Haven, Conn.

Abstract

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: Ch.1. Setting the context / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.2. Propaganda on the home fronts: clothing and textiles as message / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.3. Propaganda precedents: pre-1930 propaganda textiles / J.M. Atkins and Miyuki Otaka. -- Part II. The visual culture of war: Ch.4. Japan's beautiful modern war / John W. Dower -- Ch.5. Potatoes are protective, too: cultural icons of Britain at war -- Ch.6. An American vision: progaganda on the home front during World War II / Marianne Lamonaca. -- Part III. Wearing propaganda: fashion, text iles, and morale on the home front: Ch.7. "Extravagance is the Enemy": fashion and textiles in wartime Japan / J.M. Atkins -- Ch.8. Design and war: kimono as "parlor-performance" propaganda / Kashiwagi Hiroshi -- Ch.9. War-promoting kimono (1931-45) / Wak akuwa Midori -- Ch.10. Keeping up home front morale: "Beauty and duty" in wartime Britain / Pat Kirkham -- Ch.11. Showing the colors: America / Beverly Gordon -- Part IV. The propaganda textile motifs of the Asia-Pacific War: Ch.13. An arsenal of design: themes, motifs and metaphors in propaganda textiles/ J.M. Atkins.