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Fashion and the art of pochoir : the golden age of illustration in Paris / April Calahan & Cassidy Zachary

Catalog Data

Author:
Calahan, April  Search this
Zachary, Cassidy  Search this
Physical description:
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
History
Pochoir prints
Place:
France
Paris
Date:
2015
20th century
Notes:
CHM copy Purchased from the Cooper Hewitt Library Endowment.
Contents:
The art of dress: Les robes de Paul Poiret racontées par Paul Iribe = The dresses of Paul Poiret as told by Paul Iribe -- Poiret's new kingdom: Les choses de Paul Poiret vues par Georges Lepape = The things of Paul Poiret as seen by Georges Lepape -- Queen of the Rue de la Paix: L'eventail et la fourrure chez Paquin = Fans and furs from the House of Paquin -- Martin and the modiste: La mode en mil neuf cent douze chez Marcelle Demay = Fashion in 1912 from the House of Marcelle Demay -- Stylizing 'la femme': Modes et manières d'sujourd'hui = Fashions and manners of today -- Opulence resurrected: Journal des eames et des nodes = Journal of ladies and fashions -- Art, fashions, frivolities: Gazette du bon ton = Gazette of good taste -- The follies of fashion: Robes et femmes = Dresses and women -- At war with fashion: Le goût du jour = In style -- The artist of luxury: La dernière lettre Persane = The last Persian letter
Summary:
"The 1910s and 1920s witnessed an outpouring of luxury fashion publications that used a hand-stenciling technique known as pochoir (French for stencil). This highly refined, painterly technique, which consists of applying layers of gouache paint or watercolor to achieve bold blocks of saturated color, produced works of visual artistry previously unrivaled in the history of fashion illustration. Fashion and the Art of Pochoir presents a carefully curated selection of 300 of the most exceptional illustrations from albums produced by the leading French couturiers, as well as from high-end fashion magazines. Artists from Paul Iribe, Georges Lepape, and George Barbier to Umberto Brunelleschi, Eduardo Garcia Benito, and André E. Marty, these artists inaugurated the alliance between fashion and art with highly stylized depictions of the work of cutting edge designers such as Paul Poiret, Jeanne Lanvin, and Madeleine Vionnet, among others"--Publisher's description.
Topic:
Fashion drawing  Search this
Fashion--History  Search this
Stencil work--History  Search this
Magazine illustration--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1092507