Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota, 55 Masterworks

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View Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota, 55 Masterworks with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. His work combines stitch-resist and ink drawing with a complex layering of color to achieve hauntingly beautiful landscapes with richly textured surfaces and an impressionistic rendering of nature never before seen in the textile arts. This lavishly illustrated book showcases fifty-five masterworks by Japanese kimono artist Itchiku Kubota (1917-2003). Initially determined to unlock the secrets of dyed and painted Japanese textiles of the fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries, Kubota ultimately invented a unique method of decoration. His work combines stitch-resist and ink drawing with a complex layering of color to achieve hauntingly beautiful landscapes with richly textured surfaces and an impressionistic rendering of nature never before seen in the textile arts. Although Kubota produced kimono for Japanese celebrities, his primary endeavor was the creation of a series of monumental kimonos intended only for display. This entirely new approach to the use of the kimono as a vehicle for pictorial imagery has enabled Kubota’s work to reach beyond the traditional boundaries of the single garment and elevated his work to installation art. This book accompanied a touring exhibition and features essays by Dale Carolyn Gluckman, Asian textile specialist and former costumes and textile curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Hollis Goodall, curator of Japanese art at LACMA, as well as an interview with Mr. Kubota’s son and artistic heir, Itchiku Kubota II, by Derrick Cartwright, Director of the San Diego Museum of Art. 160 pp., 170 illustrations, 168 in color Condition: Like New. Category: Books & Magazines › Books.