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: 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:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York by Yale University Press 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.5488 ATKKoepke, Peter
Summary: Every season, designers from fashion, home furnishings, textiles, graphic arts, and paper-product industries seek inspiration from patterns to bring their collections to life. Many of these designers - including Beacon Hill, Boden, Calvin Klein, Clinique, Colefax & Fowler, Lululemon, Nike, Oscar de la Renta, Pottery Barn, and Target - look to the Design Library, the world's largest archive of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746 KOEFriis-Hansen, Dana
Summary: "At the invitation of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), in 2013, Alexis Rockman began research for the Great Lakes Cycle, an ambitious suite of paintings and works on paper that the artist created over the course of four years. It will debut in Grand Rapids in 2018 and tour throughout the Great Lakes region"--introduction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 FRICohen, Allen C.
Summary: CD-ROM contains: assignments to reinforce content from each chapter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fairchild Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 COHSchoeser, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1989
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.0942 SCHO'Keeffe, Georgia
Contents: Foreword: Enrique Juncosa, Kathleen S. Bartels -- Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction / Richard D. Marshall -- Georgia O'Keeffe's Landscapes: Modern and American / Yvonne Scott -- A constellation of forms / Achille Bonito Oliva.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skira 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 OFEKent, Kate Peck.
Summary: Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, this book is the classic introductory text on this appealing Native American art form.
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Publisher / Publication Date: School of American Research Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.41 KENLawrence, Robyn Griggs.
Summary: Wabi-sabi is an ancient Japanese philosophy that focuses on appreciating the simple and letting go of the superficial. This book provides a history of the practice and detailed and illustrated guidelines on how to introduce wabi-sabi into your home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.01 LAWCruz, Kleaver
Summary: "A beautiful love letter to Black joy, as a source of self-preservation and survival as well as a form of resistance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 704.9 CRUSpencer, Andrea.
Summary: Instructions for such projects as a string-and-driftwood chair, a distressed louvered door, and a shell-encrusted mirror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorenz Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 SPEMeller, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.62 MELFinlay, Victoria
Summary: From our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it's also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Traveling across the world and bringing history to life, bestselling author Victoria Finlay investigates how and why people have made and used cloth. A century ago in Wales, women would sew their own funeral clothes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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Summary: Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the rapid expansion of industrial capitalism in the 1950s. Skepticism of science and technology--along with fear of its capability to promote mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 BAUPattullo, Mandy
Summary: Collage and textile work come together in an inspired collection of techniques and projects! When designer Mandy Pattullo weds collage with textile work, the result is a happy marriage of techniques. Mandy shows how to transform those hoarded bits of fabric, trim, and memory-filled domestic textiles into something new and personal. From sourcing and unpicking found material to creating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Batsford 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.4 PATStrasdin, Kate
Summary: "In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments -- some her own, others donated by family and friends -- she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs. Anne Sykes. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin, a fashion historian and museum...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingenuity. Design journalist Kassia St. Clair guides us through the technological advancements and cultural customs that would redefine human civilization—from the fabric that allowed mankind to achieve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.09 ST CTanov, Erica
Summary: "The first design book that translates elements of nature--flora, water, and wood--into elements of decor for beautiful, lived-in, bohemian interiors, from acclaimed designer and tastemaker Erica Tanov"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 670 TANNeel, Alice
Summary: "Explores the themes and stylistic developments of the art of Alice Neel, one of the greatest American painters of the twentieth century, with works spanning nearly seven decades, four essays and additional texts addressing themes and specific works, three artists' appreciations, and a chronology and bibliography"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Fine Arts 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 NEEDoney, Meryl
Summary: Discusses varied types of fabric art from around the world and the techniques used to create them and provides step-by-step instructions for related projects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 746 DONNewbold, Amy
Summary: Introduces a variety of nineteenth and twentieth century painters--including Picasso, O'Keefe, Seurat, and Jacob Lawrence--and their distinctive styles, through paintings of snowmen as each artist might have portrayed them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759 NEWAdefris, Fasika
Summary: Follows how a Gabi is made in Ethiopia from seed to harvest, to weaving to shop, to gift for Girma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024