"Christian Dior" 1996 MARTIN, Richard & KODA, Harold

"Christian Dior" 1996 MARTIN, Richard & KODA, HaroldMARTIN, Richard & KODA, Harold [203] pp. The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1997 Second Printing 12" x 9 1 2" Fine Fine 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

MARTIN, Richard & KODA, Harold

[203] pp.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1997

Second Printing

12" x 9 1/2"

Fine/ Fine

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.