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050 00 $aTT502$b.M368 1996
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100 1 $aMartin, Richard$q(Richard Harrison)
245 10 $aChristian Dior /$cRichard Martin and Harold Koda ; photographs by Karin L. Willis.
246 30 $aDior
260 $aNew York :$bThe Metropolitan Museum of Art :$bDistributed by Abrams,$c1996.
300 $a201, [6] p. :$bcol. ill. ;$c31 cm.
520 $a"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." "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." --Book Jacket.
500 $aPublished in conjunction with the exhibition 'Christian Dior,' held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from December 12, 1996 through March 23, 1997.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
500 $aExhibition title: Christian Dior.
600 10 $aDior, Christian$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aFashion designers$zFrance$zParis$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aCostume design$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aFashion$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century$vExhibitions.
700 1 $aKoda, Harold.
710 2 $aCostume Institute (New York, N.Y.)
710 2 $aMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio10995357$zFull text from MetPublications
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