Thesis
Creating cloth, creating culture: the influence of Japanese textile design on French art deco textiles, 1920-1930
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2007
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/102277
Abstract
After Japan opened its doors to international commerce in the 1850s, its trade with European countries blossomed. From the beginning of France's economic interaction with Japan in the nineteenth century, these commercial transactions led to cultural exchange via trade wares, which included clothing and fabrics. This thesis will analyze the visual influence of these Japanese apparel fabrics upon French Art Deco textiles from 1920-1930 as a reflection of increased cultural contact between East and West during that time period. The visual effects of cultural contact between France and Japan in the early twentieth century were clearly evident in the fashion fabrics of the time. By 1920, French fashion designers such as Paul Poiret and Sonia Delaunay had adopted stylistic elements from traditional Japanese textile designs for apparel and integrated them into their own work. These designers' embracement of the attention to surface embellishment present in Japanese textiles is discussed in the context of fashion history, notably in relation to the early twentieth century's new flattened, tubular figure, and to the increased attention to surface decoration which accompanied this shift. These salient changes were investigated in relation to changed social factors in France, including the increase in industrialization and concurrent modernization of social roles for women after the First World War.
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Details
- Title
- Creating cloth, creating culture
- Creators
- Sara Elisabeth Hayden
- Contributors
- Linda B. Arthur (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Apparel, Merchandising, Design and Textiles, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525046001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis